re: #12 Rightwingconspirator
Fly out of Hawthorne?
No, I didn’t start flying till that fall after I went back to Edwards when school started. We flew out of Mojave. It was an interesting place even then, but not as much as it is now. I have flown out of Hawthorne though, but not since Spacex moved in. I like it, as well as Zamperini in Torrance (great museum there) but both are very confined and uncomfortably close to LAX.