Students in the Junior Test Pilot Summer Program at Blackbird Airpark in Palmdale look for stealth capabilities on a display Lockheed Martin SR-71A aircraft. The two-week program at the Palmdale airpark gives local students in grades 6 through 8 an opportunity to learn about the history of the Antelope Valley’s aerospace industry, as well as introduce them to the wide variety of skilled labor available for careers in the industry. (Photograph by Evelyn Kristo)
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What keeps airplanes up? That’s one of the concepts students studied if they joined the Junior Test Pilot Program, offered for the third consecutive summer this year at Blackbird Airpark on East Avenue P in Palmdale, where about 20 military aircraft including the D-21 drone and the SR-71 are on display.