NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

The Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility, operated by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, is located in Palmdale, Calif., 70 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles. NASA has leased the facility, ...

NASA’s Western Aeronautical Test Range (WATR) supports aerospace flight research and technology integration, space exploration concepts, airborne remote sensing and a wide variety of science missions.

The Flight Loads Laboratory offers thermal, structural, ground vibration, and structural mode interaction testing of aircraft and aircraft structural components. The ability to do all of these tests ...

The Research Aircraft Integration Facility (RAIF) provides high-fidelity real-time and batch flight simulation capabilities, closed-loop hardware-in-the-loop and vehicle-in-the-loop verification and ...

The Dryden Experimental Fabrication Branch is a one-stop fabrication and manufacturing center.

Dryden's 3,200-square foot chemical crib is a highly successful centralized site for dispensing, mixing, labeling, and storing chemicals.

The DAOF Fabrication Shop is a first response manufacturing, modification, and repair center supporting NASA aircraft and related experimental hardware.

Modifying an aircraft for a research project involves the activities of many people at Dryden, and high on the list of this team are the highly experienced specialists at the Machine Shop.

When a NASA aircraft is being prepared for a major research program, the Sheet Metal Shop of the Dryden Flight Research Center's Experimental Fabrication Branch is likely to be involved.