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D-558-2 Skyrocket Structural Heating Survey Pickips
D-558-2 Skyrocket with Pilot and Automobile
D-558-2 Skyrocket with Tow Bar
First D-558-2 Skyrocket on Thrust Measurement Gauges
D-558-2 Skyrocket Takeoff with JATO Assist
D-558-2 Skyrocket in Flight
D-558-2 Skyrocket Main Landing Gear and Wheels
D-558-2 Skyrocket Main Landing Gear and Wheels
D-558-2 Skyrocket Tail
D-558-2 Skyrocket in Flight
D-558-2 Skyrocket Pilot
D-558-2 Skyrocket, First to Reach Mach 2
D-558-2 Skyrocket on Tarmac
D-558-2 Skyrocket in Flight
Third D-558-2 Skyrocket on Rocket Servicing Trailer
D-558-2 Skyrocket #1 with Left Landing Gear Collapsed
D-558-2 Skyrocket #1 with Left Landing Gear Collapsed
D-558-2 Skyrocket, Ship Number 2, with Speed Brake Partially Open
D-558-2 Skyrocket on the Ground After a Mach One Pass for a Media Demonstration
D-558-2 Skyrocket Airdrop Preparations with P2B-1S Mothership, "Fertile Myrtle"
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D-558-2 Skyrocket with Yaw and Pitch Sensing Vanes on its Instrumentation Boom
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
BI229563
Boeing ID
sm117028
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2780px × 2156px 5MB
License type
RM
Keywords
1940s
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clear skies
day
deserts
exteriors
ground shots
head on views
high-tech / advanced
historic production status
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military livery
monoplanes
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research/experimental
right front views
rocket planes
rockets
scanned from film negative
shadows
structural systems
sunshine
three-quarter length views
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