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Sixty years ago this fall

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engineers pilots and support staff

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of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

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helped launch a new era in aviation by

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establishing the Flight Test Unit

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at Muroc Army Air Force Base

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in the high desert of California.

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Since then, the facility known today

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as the Dryden Flight Research Center

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has been host to many historic advances

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in flight technology and safety.

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From supersonics to the Space Shuttle

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Dryden continues to be one of the World's

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premier flight research centers