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Fifty-six years ago this month, the USAF/Bell X-2 Starbuster experimental flight research aircraft made its initial powered flight from Edwards Air Force Base, California.   Legendary test pilot USAF Lt. Col. Frank K. “Pete” Everest was at the controls of the rocket-powered, swept-wing X-aircraft.

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