General Robert Cardenas'talk is entitled "Back to the Present." He explains his involement as an Air Force test pilot in two of the major programs of post-WWII aviation--the development ofsupersonic flight, beginning with Colonel Stapp's wild rocket sled ride to Yeager's breaking the sound barrier. Then to the development of a heavy-lift long range bomber, which became the Y-49 flying wing and later the B-2. Cardenas recalls his cross-cuntry flight in the YB-49 to Washington DC, at President Truman's orders,

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