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D-558-2 Skyrocket Pilot
D-558-2 Skyrocket Pilot 
D-558-2 Skyrocket #1 with Left Landing Gear Collapsed
D-558-2 Skyrocket #1 with Left Landing Gear Collapsed 
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D-558-2 Skyrocket in Flight 
D-558-2 Skyrocket with Pilot and Automobile
D-558-2 Skyrocket with Pilot and Automobile 
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D-558-2 Skyrocket Takeoff with JATO Assist 
D-558-2 Skyrocket in Flight
D-558-2 Skyrocket in Flight 
D-558-2 Skyrocket #1 with Left Landing Gear Collapsed
D-558-2 Skyrocket #1 with Left Landing Gear Collapsed 
D-558-2 Skyrocket in Flight
D-558-2 Skyrocket in Flight 
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D-558-2 Skyrocket Tail 
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D-558-2 Skyrocket Structural Heating Survey Pickips 
D-558-2 Skyrocket on the Ground After a Mach One Pass for a Media Demonstration
D-558-2 Skyrocket on the Ground After a Mach One Pass for a Media Demonstration 
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Third D-558-2 Skyrocket on Rocket Servicing Trailer
Third D-558-2 Skyrocket on Rocket Servicing Trailer 
First D-558-2 Skyrocket on Thrust Measurement Gauges
First D-558-2 Skyrocket on Thrust Measurement Gauges 
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D-558-2 Skyrocket Main Landing Gear and Wheels 
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D-558-1 Skystreak Pilot 
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D-558-1 Skystreak with Pilot Gene May 
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D-558-2 Skyrocket with Tow Bar 
D-558-1 Skystreak Pilot Gene May
D-558-1 Skystreak Pilot Gene May 
D-558-2 Skyrocket Main Landing Gear and Wheels
D-558-2 Skyrocket Main Landing Gear and Wheels 
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D-558-2 Skyrocket, First to Reach Mach 2

On June 11, 1951, the Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket, flown by company test pilot Bill Bridgeman, set new unofficial airplane speed and altitude records at Edwards Air Force Base, California, with a speed estimated at more than 1,200 mph and an altitude estimated at 70,000 feet. The Skyrocket was a single-seat, swept-wing research aircraft powered by both a turbojet engine and a rocket motor. 
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Unique identifier BI229555 
Boeing ID k5582-g6-2 
Type Image 
Size 2358px × 2928px   19MB 
License type RM 
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