The cavernous interior of the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility hangar is seen in this wide-angle image. Several of NASA's science aircraft, including the SOFIA observatory, the DC-8 science laboratory, ER-2 Earth resources aircraft and a Gulfstream-III science aircraft occupy the 220,000-square-foot hangar. The image is a composite of six vertic
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The cavernous interior of the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility hangar is seen in this wide-angle image. Several of NASA’s science aircraft, including the SOFIA observatory, the DC-8 science laboratory, ER-2 Earth resources aircraft, and a Gulfstream-III science aircraft occupy the 220,000-square-foot hangar. The image is a composite of six vertical photos shot by Dryden photographer Tom Tschida using a Nikon D3x camera set at 1/8-second exposure at f8, ISO 1250, with a 15 mm lens.March 17, 2010
Photo by Tom Tschida