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<-- 1947 1948 Aircraft Photo Gallery. Last updated 09 August, 2007 1949 -->
• Dedication of the Variable-Angle Launcher used for research and development at NOTS.
• Dedication of the Variable-Angle Launcher used for testing underwater ordnance items at Morris Dam.
• Activation of Station Advisory Board.
• Jan. 21 -- U.S. Navy Chief Torpedoman Wilber K. Smith lost his life when an air compressor exploded on "G" Range, Area "R".
• 21 July 1948 -- USAF B-29 s/n 45-21847 conducting Upper Air Research carrying "Sun Tracker" instrumentation developed at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Lab took off from Armitage Field  and ditched in Lake Mead. The B-29 unit at Inyokern was gathering supplemental data in conjunction with V-2, Aerobee and Viking rocket flights from White Sands.
• Sept. 06 -- Civil Service physicist Mr. H.W. Baldwin lost his life when he parachuted from a burning B-29 Superfortress.

Rocket display, Michelson Laboratory, China Lake, 1948

11.75-inch Tiny Tim in foreground; 5-inch Holy Moses, 5.0- and 3.5-inch aircraft rockets, and 2.25-inch subcaliber aircraft rocket (L-R) on stands in center; Mousetrap antisubmarine rocket in right background; and barrage rockets in launcher in right foreground.

Official U.S. Navy photo, China Lake archives.

F6F-5 Hellcat 94409 11.75" Tiny Tim rocket firing, 22 April 1948.

Official U.S. Navy photo

F6F-5N Hellcat, BuNo 7x879, two 11.75" Tiny Tim rockets, China lake, 29 April 1948.

Official U.S. Navy photo.

AD-1 Skyraider BuNo 09335, luminous paint, China Lake, 26 Nov 1948.

Official U.S. Navy photo.

F7F-3 Tigercat BuNo 80487, luminous paint, China Lake, 26 Nov 1948.

Official U.S. Navy photo.

An early wheeled rocket sled during tests on the Transonic (B-4) Track, NOTS China Lake, 1948

Official U.S. Navy photo.

1500' rocket rail launcher, K-2 range, 1948.

Official U.S. Navy photo.