In keeping with the semi-quarantine for the Apollo 11 mission, NASA photographer Bill Taub having blood test prior to photographing…
This is an artist's computer-enhanced concept of a semi-tailless X-31 Enhanced Fighter Maneuverability Aircraft in flight.
One of two X-31 Enhanced Fighter Maneuverability Demonstrator aircraft, flown by an international test organization at NASA's Dryden Flight Research…
A technician prepares to unlatch the door built into the guide vanes of the 16-Foot Transonic Wind Tunnel at NASA…
In this photo taken on March 15, 1929, a quartet of NACA staff conduct tests on airfoils in the Variable…
Kitty Joyner, an electrical engineer for the NACA, at work in 1952.
Twin jet exhausts are inclined toward the ground to simulate takeoff conditions for certain engine installations and to identify options…
The historical evolution of airfoil sections from 1908-1944. The last two shapes are low-drag sections designed to have laminar (uninterrupted)…
Amelia Earhart (front row, center) on the steps of Langley Research Building in 1928 before a tour. Legend has it…
A semispan airplane model and flow-direction vane mounted on the wing of a P-51D airplane for transonic tests by wing-flow…
