X-Plane Files: THE LIFE OF X-1 ZERO SIX THREE
X-Plane Files: THE LIFE OF X-1 ZERO SIX THREE
XS-1 on the ramp with the B-29 mothership in 1949. This is the second XS-1 built; it later was converted into the X-1E. Unlike the XS-1-1, which was flown by the Air Force, the XS-1-2 was flown mostly by Bell and NACA pilots. It gathered much more research data than the more famous XS-1-1, known as Glamorous Glennis. Photo by NASA
A little while back, we began a series of articles looking at the air-test work which NASA and its forebear, the N.A.C.A., conducted at their facility in the Mojave Desert, located within the massive military test complex now known as Edwards Air Force Base. The civilian-run organization has often conducted its aerospace tests with active-duty military aircraft on bailment, with data shared back and forth to either help the U.S. aerospace industry, or the military itself.
Dallas wedding whisks in Hollywood surprise complete with swear jar
Photo by Danny Campbell Photography and Bryan Chatlien Photography The ceremony took place in a heartfelt ceremony at Highland Park United Methodist Church s Cox Chapel.
Photo by Danny Campbell Photography and Bryan Chatlien Photography It rained on both their wedding day and proposal day, bringing them double the luck, they say.
Photo by Danny Campbell Photography and Bryan Chatlien Photography Dallas Country Club was the magical setting for their Saturday night reception.
Photo by Danny Campbell Photography and Bryan Chatlien Photography The couple flew in The Dan Band from L.A.
Tito Puente at the timbales as a young man.
Tito Puente was still a teenager when he was drafted into the United States Navy in 1942. And while the man we remember as
El Rey de los Timbales (“The King of the Timbales”) is a defining titan of Latin jazz, there’s a distinct Asian influence in much of his compositional and arranging style that came out of his service during World War II.
Born and raised in Harlem, N.Y., Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr. was trained on piano for eight years by Victoria Hernández sister of the legendary Puerto Rican composer Rafael Hernández, who had been a member of the U.S. Army 369th Regiment Harlem Hellfighters Band in the first World War. Young Ernie studied jazz drumming with an African American show drummer that he could only remember as Mr. Williams, while also learning acrobatic tap and ballroom dancing with his sister Annie.
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