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Welcome to the August 2023, issue of Aerotech News and Review. Our cover story is about the new Battlefield Monument in Palmdale.
Also in this issue: the Flight Test Historical Foundation has announced three new awards; the AV Wall board has voted to retire the memorial at the end of 2025; VFW Post 3000 honors Blue Star Mothers; NASA Armstrong awards a scholarship to a Quartz Hill teen; and in High Desert Hangar Stories, Bob Alvis shares his memories of a WWII P-38 pilot, Virgil, and Virgil’s wartime mementos!
And of course, our highlights from On This Date when we remember the first flight of the first production B-52A Stratofortress; John Manke flying the X-24B for the first time; Aerovironment’s Global Observer taking off from Edwards in 2010; the solar-powered Pathfinder- Plus reaching 80,3000 feet; the Lockheed YF-12 making its first flight; and the Boeing YC-14 making its first flight.
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