THE FIRST JET-POWERED APE
At the dawn of the jet age, a small group of test pilots, engineers, technicians and maintenance troops secretly evaluated the Bell XP-59A, America's first military jet, at the remote Materiel Center Test Site in Southern California. This windswept, dusty camp, on the edge of what is now Rogers Dry...
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