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In 1954 after a research flight in the Boeing XB-47A Stratojet crew chief Wilbur McClenaghan (center) pilots Joe Walker on the viewer's left and Stanley Butchart on the right. Data system technician Merle Curtis, in coveralls, is busy checking the airdata head mounted on the nose boom with the help of Instrumentation Crew Chief Raymond Langley.

The door to the cockpit area is open showing a view of the ladder that folds down to be used by the pilots to enter and exit. Edwards Air Force Base, California, September 17, 1954.