Waverider NOTAM

ZLA   LOS ANGELES (ARTCC)PALMDALE, CA.
!CARF 08/041 (KZLA A1999/12) ZLA AIRSPACE DCC NAWCWD WAVERIDER 2 STATIONARY RESERVATION WITHIN AN AREA BNDD BY 3242N/12200W 3228N/12300W 3214N/12406W 3113N/12828W 3229N/12910W 3341N/12900W 3400N/12600W 3400N/12247W SFC-UNL WEF 1208151500-1208152000

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The Waverider is a hypersonic test aircraft. The reservation time is GMT.
1208151500 translates to 8/15/2012 15:00GMT or
8AM local

1208152000 translates to
8/15/2012 20:00GMT or
1PM local

SFC-UNL is surface to unlimited.

Sweet. Looks like another test already.

Test time extended to the next day. Perhaps this is for recovering the asset.

ZLA LOS ANGELES (ARTCC)PALMDALE, CA. !CARF 08/044 (KZLA A2000/12) ZLA AIRSPACE DCC NAWCWD WAVERIDER 2 STATIONARY RESERVATION WITHIN AN AREA BNDD BY 3242N/12200W 3228N/12300W 3214N/12406W 3113N/12828W 3229N/12910W 3341N/12900W 3400N/12600W 3400N/12247W SFC-UNL WEF 1208161500-1208162000

Also rocket testing at EDW:

EDW EDWARDS AFB

L0119/12 - LEO 7 ROCKET MOTOR FIRING AFRL TEST AREA 1-32 PAD 1, ALTITUDE 5K UP AND OUT, COORDINATES ARE N35° 56° 01.94' / W117° 39° 15.74'. DAILY 1400Z-0200Z. 14 AUG 14:00 2012 UNTIL 18 AUG 02:00 2012. CREATED: 13 AUG 21:23 2012

L0117/12 - AFRL HAZARD OPERATIONS(ROCKET MOTOR FIRING) SCHEDULED AT TEST AREA 1-32, PADS C & D. COORDINATES: AREA ALT 2910, N35° 56' 0.194' – W117° 39' 15.74. 13 AUG 15:30 2012 UNTIL 14 AUG 01:00 2012. CREATED: 10 AUG 20:59 2012

Also a rocket launch from Mojave on the 14th:

MHV MOJAVE
!MHV 08/020 MHV AIRSPACE UNMANNED ROCKET .5 NMR EDW267021 2000 AGL/BLW WEF 1208141500-1208142359

Launching that space plane again???

The Scaled Composites plane is manned. They launch it from another aircraft.

I attended all the test flights of the first version.
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