Test pilot Stanley Beltz flew nearly everything Lockheed produced in the decade following World War II. When a bang rattled the windows of the Gilbert home north of Lancaster, California, on the morning of August 31, 1955, Goldie Gilbert assumed it was just another sonic boom. Jets from Palmdale or Edwards Air Force Base routinely …
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