Aurora compared to Maine state average: Unemployed percentage below state average. Black race population percentage significantly below state average. Foreign-born population percentage significantly below state average. Renting percentage below state average. Length of stay since moving in significantly above state average.
Photo courtesy U.S. Air Force; photo credit: Mike Cassidy. Designated as the Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC), Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., is the Air Force Materiel Command center of excellence for research, development, and test and evaluation of aerospace systems for the United States and its allies.
Edwards became a test pilot in 1943 and spent much of his time at Muroc Army Air Field, on California's high desert, testing wide varieties of experimental prototype aircraft. He died in the crash of a Northrop YB-49 flying wing near Muroc AFB on 5 June 1948. The base is next to Rogers Dry Lake, an endorheic desert salt pan whose hard dry lake surface provides a natural extension to Edwards' runways.