EDWARDS AFB, California, March 10 -- The U.S. Air Force's Edwards Air Force Base issued the following news:

Famed test pilot, retired Brig. Gen. Robert "Bob" Cardenas has died in San Diego, California. He was 102.

From June 1947 to July 1949, Cardenas was an experimental test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, and was awarded the Air Medal with two oak leaf clusters for experimental flight tests at Edwards.

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