Summary for Sunday, October 14, 2018 yggdrasil has been up for 9 days, 18 hours and 37 minutes. The Moon is Waxing Crescent (35% of Full) Outside it is Wetter than a teenage girl at a boy band concert and 55.3 degrees fahrenheit. 17 days until #Halloween! This day in history, 1953, Second of two Bell X-5 swing-wing testbeds, 50-1839, gets into irrecoverable spin condition at Edwards AFB, California during aggravated stall test, crashes in desert, killing test pilot Maj. Raymond Popson on his first flight in the type. On the same date, the nose gear of the XF-92 collapses, ending use by NACA.