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Tick Lilly at MUROC

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Howard "Tick" Lilly was the first NACA test pilot assigned to the Muroc Flight Test Unit (now NASA Armstrong) and the first killed on a research mission.
  • Credit: NACA/NASA
  • Ownership: N/A
  • Publication: NASA History
  • Editor: N/A
  • Publisher: NASA