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D-558-2 Skyrocket Main Landing Gear and Wheels
D-558-2 Skyrocket Main Landing Gear and Wheels 
D-558-2 Skyrocket Main Landing Gear and Wheels
D-558-2 Skyrocket Main Landing Gear and Wheels 
D-558-2 Skyrocket Structural Heating Survey Pickips
D-558-2 Skyrocket Structural Heating Survey Pickips 
D-558-2 Skyrocket, Ship Number 2, with Speed Brake Partially Open
D-558-2 Skyrocket, Ship Number 2, with Speed Brake Partially Open 
D-558-2 Skyrocket Tail
D-558-2 Skyrocket Tail 
D-558-2 Skyrocket #1 with Left Landing Gear Collapsed
D-558-2 Skyrocket #1 with Left Landing Gear Collapsed 
D-558-2 Skyrocket #1 with Left Landing Gear Collapsed
D-558-2 Skyrocket #1 with Left Landing Gear Collapsed 
D-558-2 Skyrocket with Pilot and Automobile
D-558-2 Skyrocket with Pilot and Automobile 
D-558-2 Skyrocket in Flight
D-558-2 Skyrocket in Flight 
D-558-2 Skyrocket Pilot
D-558-2 Skyrocket Pilot 
D-558-2 Skyrocket Takeoff with JATO Assist
D-558-2 Skyrocket Takeoff with JATO Assist 
D-558-2 Skyrocket in Flight
D-558-2 Skyrocket in Flight 
D-558-2 Skyrocket in Flight
D-558-2 Skyrocket in Flight 
D-558-2 Skyrocket, First to Reach Mach 2
D-558-2 Skyrocket, First to Reach Mach 2 
Third D-558-2 Skyrocket on Rocket Servicing Trailer
Third D-558-2 Skyrocket on Rocket Servicing Trailer 
D-558-2 Skyrocket with Yaw and Pitch Sensing Vanes on its Instrumentation Boom
D-558-2 Skyrocket with Yaw and Pitch Sensing Vanes on its Instrumentation Boom 
First D-558-2 Skyrocket on Thrust Measurement Gauges
First D-558-2 Skyrocket on Thrust Measurement Gauges 
D-558-2 Skyrocket Airdrop Preparations with P2B-1S Mothership, "Fertile Myrtle"
D-558-2 Skyrocket Airdrop Preparations with P2B-1S Mothership, "Fertile Myrtle" 
"Fertile Myrtle" Mothership Prepares to Airdrop a D-558-2 Skyrocket
"Fertile Myrtle" Mothership Prepares to Airdrop a D-558-2 Skyrocket 
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D-558-2 Skyrocket with Tow Bar

Jan. 31, 1948, marked the first flight of the Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket experimental aircraft. The first flight took place at Muroc Dry Lake in the California desert with veteran Douglas test pilot Johnny Martin at the controls. The Skyrocket was designed by a team led by world renown airplane designer Ed Heinemann, and was the first Douglas-built plane to exceed the speed of sound and also was the first aircraft ever to exceed Mach 2. 
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Unique identifier BI229579 
Boeing ID sm94004 
Type Image 
Size 2773px × 2151px   5MB 
License type RM 
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