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| Keywords: X-24 DVIDS843207.jpg en E-29374 This photo shows Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Michael V Love in front of the X-24B lifting body research vehicle at Edwards Air Force Base in 1976 Love was assigned as a project pilot on the joint NASA-USAF X-24B Lifting Body flight test program at the NASA Flight Research Center He made a total of 12 flights in the plane from October 4 1973 until July 15 1975 Love flew it to a speed of Mach 1 76 on October 25 1974 a record for the X-24B Love attended the USAF Test Pilot School and remained as an instructor there from 1969 through 1971 He was a test pilot at Edwards when assigned to fly to the X-24B Love was a combat veteran of Vietnam and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross with two Oak Leaf clusters Love perished while attempting an emergency landing in an RF-4C on March 1 1976 less than a month after this photo was taken The X-24B was the last aircraft to fly in the Dryden Flight Research Center's manned lifting body program February 1976 NASA Photo / NASA NASA Identifier 343777main_E-29374 2010-06-15 Glenn Research Center https //www dvidshub net/image/843207 843207 2013-02-08 09 35 WASHINGTON D C US PD-USGov Aircraft at Rogers Dry Lake Images from DoD uploaded by Fæ Martin-Marietta X-24 | ||||
