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Site friends & contributors Tony Accurso and daughter Evelyn sent over the below photos from the X-2 fuselage crash site. They visited on September 27th, leaving new flags and flowers to remember Capt. Apt. Haystack Butte, the lone mountain in the background. The X-2 nose section came to rest about a mile […] While many of us remember Capt. Mel Apt for his final flight on September 27, 1956, another flight was equally important two years earlier. Capt. Apt was awarded the Soldier’s Medal for helping save a fellow pilot. The story of flight was told in a 1956 Life Magazine article, available online. […] On September 17, the Air Force Flight Test Museum at Edwards AFB opened a new display remembering Capt. Mel Apt and the Bell X-2. I had the honor of attending the opening, meeting Lorrie Epling (Capt. Apt’s daughter) as well as attend other X-2 events that day (which I will write more about later!). Aviation […] It’s hard to imagine that it was 60 years since the Bell X-2 last flew. In September 1956, the Bell X-2 program flew higher and faster than anyone had ever gone before: September 7: Capt. Iven Kincheloe rockets to a record altitude of 126,200 feet. September 27: Capt. Milburn “Mel” Apt flys the perfect profile […] If you can get on Edwards for this showing, go! Would love any photos/reports from the fans out there! Coming to Blu-Ray and DVD October 18. Preorder at Amazon! |
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