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Originally Posted by Piotrsko
Boron is right outside the north gate of edwards and the rocket test site, 30 ish miles east of Mojave and the train yard that made up the ill fated aforementioned san berdue crash train, but before US 395 which makes the eastern boundary of KEDW airplane patch.
The borax pit is across the freeway
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Right! I visited there once, and got away with a couple of beautiful, box-cornered, wooden, DuPont Dynamite boxes from back when.
Boron was also the final home of Pancho Barnes, of the Happy-Bottom Riding Club.
General Chuck Yeager was the keynote speaker at the 1997 annual Oshkosh Fly-In. The 'pit' where his Bell X-1 was attached to the B-29 mother ship was very close to where I worked at Edwards.
And it was interesting to finally 'meet' the famed aviator, knowing his connection to 'Muroc', Pancho, and the remains of her desert watering-hole I'd walked out to see a couple of times.