Message posted by Peter Merlin on November 13, 2003 at 8:46:55 PST:

Groom Lake was a designated emergency landing site for the X-15, but it was never used. Mud Lake was used four times. The 1962 landing accident happened at Mud Lake. It is well documented (photos, film, accident report). All X-15 emergency landing lakebeds were marked with runways. Mud Lake had two 3-mile-long strips with overruns on each end between 3,000 and 5,000 feet long.

In Reply to: Ancient History: X-15 Landing at Mud Lake, Or Was It Groom Lake? posted by Wildweasel on November 08, 2003 at 19:37:29 PST:

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