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It’s so nice to hear that the X-2 and Capt. Mel Apt haven’t been forgotten. Fifty-five years after the crash, Tony Accurso and a group assembled at the X-2 crash site to honor the Capt. Apt. Here’s his recap (Thanks, Tony!): On Tuesday, 27 Sep 11, several base personnel including myself, my daughter Evelyn, [...] Fifty five years after his fatal crash, a memorial is in the works to honor Capt. Mel Apt and the Bell X-2. Located in the Kramer Hills area, just east of Edwards AFB, the crash site memorial will be installed this Fall or Winter. Many thanks to Greg Frazier for spearheadding this effort and keeping me [...] Cover from the October 1954 issue of Life of the Soldier and the Airman, a recruiting magazine/handout. This is as exciting as it gets in Milwaukee: The carcass of a Shorts 330 in Edwards markings, tail number 40458 (aka N264AC). If you have any information on this plane, please drop me a note! Toward The Unknown is now available, remastered, from the Warner Brothers Archive Collection. It is a “print-on-demand” DVD, which is the ‘new’ standard it appears for classic film. That model is fine by me: it allows companies such as WB to offer rare, classic films without having to worry about mass distribution to all the [...] On December 17, Maj. Gen. Stanley Holtoner passed away at 99 years. I wrote to him a few years back and asked him to sign a few pictures for me. He was kind enough to do so, including a print of the Ad Inexplorata shield, which came to be under his leadership of Edwards AFB. Another chapter [...] Sad news to pass along – I recently learned that Robert A. Rohrer passed away January 18. Bob was a friend of the Web site, offering a number of his never before seen color X-2 and Toward the Unknown photos for the site. Bob was a pleasure to work with and I always enjoyed swapping [...] Read about my visit to the X-2 crash site this past October.
It looks like Life magazine continues to scan their collection of photos. I just completed a search for X-2 and ran into some new pictures, many also from their Air Age story. In addition to the X-2, it looks like new photos of Pete Everest, Iven Kincheloe, Fitz Fulton, program members & more are appearing. Google & Life are at it again – this time with full issues of Life Magazine online. It appears that only select years are online right now. Check out this Edwards AFB / X-2 article from June 18, 1956. |
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