E-5071
JF-104A (Serial #56-0749) on the ramp at the NASA Flight Research Center (now the Dryden Flight Research Center) at Edwards AFB. The aircraft is shown with the Air Launched Sounding Rocket (ALSOR) attached to the underside. NASA test pilot Milton O. Thompson ejected from this aircraft on 20 December 1962, after an asymmetrical flap condition made the jet uncontrollable.
- Date
- 1959-12-16
- Photographer / author
- NASA
- Collection
- AFRC
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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