Y." 5 June Northrop YB-49-NO 42-102368 (c/n 1488) crashed in the desert near Muroc Air Force Base in California after both outer wings become detached from the center section during spin recovery, killing pilot Maj. Daniel Forbes of Topeka, Kansas; co-pilot Capt. Glen W. Edwards of Lincoln, California; Lt. Edward Swindell of Virginia Beach, Virginia, and two civilians: C. C. Leser of Joliet, Illinois and C. H. Lafountain of Hudson Falls, New York. All were attached to the flight-test division of Air Materiel Command at Wright Field, Ohio. Forbes Air Force Base in Kansas was named for the pilot, and Muroc was renamed Edwards Air Force Base for the co-pilot on 5 December 1949. The flying-wing bomber design was revived in the 1980s as the B-2 Spirit. 12 June Pilot Capt. Bill E. Myers failed to lift off from Godman Field in Fort Knox, Kentucky, on takeoff in Lockheed F-80A-1-LO Shooting Star 44-85116, crashed through a fence and plowed into a passing car. All four in the automobile died, but the pilot was uninjured. The Godman Field public information office said that the P-80 was bound for Eglin AFB in Florida after a stopover at Godman. The victims, all from nearby Elizabethtown, Kentucky, were Vernon C. Ferren, 63; his wife, Annie C. Ferren, 50; Lela Ferren, 61, Vernon's sister; and Spencer Blackburn, 43. The airframe had been tested with wingtip rocket racks. 19 June A Douglas C-54 Skymaster departed Lawson Air Force Base at Fort Benning in Georgia with 45 on board, including 39 West Point cadets, for a flight to Louisville, Kentucky. Shortly after takeoff, a fuel line broke and sparks from engine exhaust set it alight. "The flames spread over one of the wings but crew members prevented the fire from reaching the fuel tanks." Maj. W. B. Curran of Santa Ana, California safely returned the burning transport to Lawson, where crash apparatus was standing by. There were no injuries. 20 June Second Lt. Richard Ambrose, 23, a student at Gonzaga University in Spokane, was killed in the 14:50 crash and burning of North American P-51D-20-NA Mustang 44-63700 c/n 122-31426, of the 116th Fighter Squadron, Felts Field, Washington Air National Guard at Gray Field, Fort Lewis, Washington. On 1 July 1948, the 116th moved to larger Geiger Field. Gonzaga records indicated that Ambrose was a sophomore in electrical engineering and lived in Spokane. The son of M. J.