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Description NOTS Project ("NOTSNIK") test shape ready for flight on a Douglas F4D-1 Skyray (BuNo. 130747), Armitage Field, U.S. National Ordnance Test Station, Naval Air Facility China Lake (California, USA), 1958; NOTSNIK, China Lake's crash-program answer to Sputnik, was an air-launched satellite-delivery system built in-house from available components and with no moving parts; six test launches were made, without provable success, but some people believe one was successful and that NOTS launched one of the first U.S. satellites. The Naval Ordnance Test Station (NOTS) was established in November 1943, forming the foundations of the current Naval Weapons Center (NWC). In the background two F3D-2Q Skyknight ECM-aircraft (BuNos 124596, 125846) of Marine composite squadron VMCJ-3 are parked. VMCJ-3 was formed at MCAS El Toro on 12 December 1955 and took delivery of the F3D-2Q in 1957. In 1970 VMCJ-3 retired the last of the F3D-2Q (after 1962 designated EF-10B) from Marine aviation. A North American FJ-4 Fury is visible in the foreground, and the wing of a JD-1 Invader is visible in the background.
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