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Title: Sabre jet at threshold
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1958
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph caption dated June 18, 1958 reads "Capt. Mickey Jones (not visible) centers on runway at Palmdale Airport after 45 minute flight over Mojave Desert. Speedy plane used big chunk of runway because drag chute was not deployed to help brake plane. Air Force test pilot had another mission to fly and decided to save his tail chute. Jones flies some 50 such missions each month."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00118572
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d022_f18_i17
CARL0005381212
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/52510
Subject: Palmdale Regional Airport
F-100 (Jet fighter plane)
Bombers--California--Palmdale
Jet fighter planes--California--Palmdale
Airplanes--Cockpits
Airports--California--Palmdale
Palmdale (Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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