Armstrong Flight Research Center HistoryFive NACA engineers, headed by Walt Williams, arrived at Muroc Army Airfield (now Edwards AFB) about this date from Langley...The NACA Muroc Flight Test Unit received permanent status from Hugh L. Dryden, the NACA's Director of Research. The unit...The late 1940s saw increased flight activity, and more women computers were needed at the NACA Muroc Flight Test Unit...The NACA Muroc Flight Test Unit XS-1 Team members and USAF pilots.These employees and this equipment supported the flight of the NACA D-558-II Skyrocket at the High-Speed Flight Station at South...This group photo of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) employees was taken in 1950 in front of the NACA...The NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station moved from its cramped quarters in a small hangar at what is now known...This photo shows test pilots, (Left-Right) Joseph A. Walker, Stanley P. Butchart and Walter P. Jones, standing in front of...Personnel of the NACA High-Speed Flight Station gathered for a group photo in front of the station's new headquarters, Bldg....A group photo of the LLRV personnel following the program's 100th flight. The photo was taken at South Base, and...NASA Flight Research Center (now NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center) research pilot Joseph A. Walker flew the first NASA flight in a...The construction of the M2-F1 was a joint effort between Dryden Flight Research Center and a local glider manufacturer, the...Pilot Bill Dana looks up as the B-52 "mothership" cruises over NASA's HL-10 "lifting body" on Muroc Dry Lake, California,...In a program conducted between 1979 and 1982, the NASA Dryden (now Armstrong) Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, successfully...320,000 people come to Edwards Air Force Base to witness the landing of Columbia, the first space shuttle. NASA's Dryden...S77-28138 (13 Sept 1977) --- The shuttle Orbiter 101 "Enterprise" makes a slight turn and bank maneuver during the second...President Ronald Reagan speaks to a crowd of more than 45,000 people at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center following the...Final flight of F-104G 826 in early 1994 capped 38 years of service by 11 different F-104 aircraft at NASA's...