This up-to-date and comprehensive CD-ROM provides full coverage of the amazing achievements and fascinating work at Edwards Air Force Base in California - many milestones of modern aviation and spaceflight were made at Edwards! History coverage includes Moments in Flight Test History; Historical Virtual Tour of Edwards AFB; The Planes that Yeager Flew; Aircraft including X-1; X-1A; X-2; X-3; X-15; X-33; A-20 Havoc; B-2 Spirit; XB-35 Flying Wing; YB-49 Flying Wing; F-15 Eagles; Silver Anniversary of the F-16; F-22; XP-59A Air comet-America's First Jet; XP-80/80A Shooting Star-First to Exceed 500 mph; Spy Planes; Strange Planes-Weird, Wild and Wonderful; Space Shuttle Columbia; Biographies of Pilots including Florence "Pancho" Barnes; Scott Crossfield; Bill Dana; Glen Edwards; Joe Engle; Fitz Fulton; Charles Yeager; Female Test Pilots; Edwards Before the Military; The Dry Lake Beds; Evolution of Flight Test; Major Milestones; USAF Test Pilot School; Sonic Booms; Other Testing; Pushing the Envelope; Breaking Mach 2; Sled Track to Survival; Edwards-Hollywood Collection; Weapons Systems for Tomorrow's Air Force; UAV Robo Force; Air Supremacy in the Jet Age; First Flights; Remembering the First Supersonic Flight; Murphy's Law was Born Here; Muroc Lake Bed Marker; Base History; Moments in Flight Test History. Coverage features About Edwards; Products and Services; Base Guide; Contracting; News releases 1996 through 2003; Careers at Edwards; Flight Safety; F/A-22 Raptor complete coverage; Edwards History; Photo Gallery illustrated with dramatic color and contemporaneous black and white photography of aircraft and pilots; Test Pilot School. Products and Services coverage includes Edwards Climate, Terrain and Visibility; Overview of Capabilities; Combined Test Force; Electronic Warfare; Flight Testing; Logistics; Ranges; Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles; Facilities and Resources Overview; Avionics Integration; Measurement Facilities; Logistics Resources; Aircraft Instrumentation; Modification Center; Ranges including Ridley Mission Control; Edwards Flight Test Range; Designated Spin Areas; Radar Fidelity and Geometric Range; Terrain-Following Radar Course; Instrumented Routes; Mobile Range; Runways and Dry Lakes; Business Guide; Sharing Technology. Edwards Capabilities and Facilities includes Electronic Warfare (Electronic Warfare Directorate; Avionic Test and Integration Complex; Flight Test and Open Air Range); High Performance Computing/Distributed Center (HPC/DC); Measurement Facilities (Tensile Strength Measurement; Air Data Calibration Facility; Ground Vibration/Structures Laboratory; Human Factors Laboratory; Icing/Refueling Laboratory; Instrumented Propulsion Complex; Aircraft Gun Harmonization Facility; Stores Weight and Inertial System Facility Test; Test Measurement and Diagnostic Equipment (TMDE) Lab; Aircraft Horizontal Thrust Measurement Facility); Modeling and Simulation (T & E Modeling and Simulation/TEMS); Open Air Ranges; Mission Support Facilities (Aircraft Corrosion Control; Air Traffic Control; Test Pilot School). Measurement Facilities include Air Data Calibration Facility; Human Factors Laboratory; Instrumentation Propulsion Complex; Parachute Test Complex; Aircraft Gun Harmonizing Facility; Stores Weight Inertial Facility; Aircraft Thrust Measurement Facility; Test Measurement and Diagnostic Equipment. Over 1100 image files and nine video files are included in this set. Over 10,000 pages are reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Apple Macintosh systems. Reader software is included. Our CD-ROMs are privately-compiled collections of official public domain U. S. government files and documents - they are not produced by the federal government. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed, searched by finding specific words, or printe