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F5D-1 Skylancer
F5D-1 Skylancer

The big block letters "TEST" on the upper fuselage of this Douglas F5D-1 Skylancer (Bu. No. 139208/NASA tail number 212)…

Fleet Aircraft
Fleet Aircraft

Four different versions of the F-16 were used by Dryden in the 1990s.

Fleet Aircraft
Fleet Aircraft

The aircraft in this 1953 photo of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) hangar at South Base of Edwards…

Dryden People
Dryden People

As a very young undergraduate student at Johns Hopkins University Hugh L. Dryden proved himself especially gifted in physics and…

F-15B Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration
F-15B Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration

In a role-reversal, Northrop Grumman Corp.'s modified F-5E Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration (SSBD) aircraft flies off the wing of NASA's…

F-15B Supersonic Natural Laminar Flow Experiment
F-15B Supersonic Natural Laminar Flow Experiment

The primary goal of the SuperSonic Natural Laminar Flow experiment was to investigate the extent and stability of natural laminar…

X-1A Ejection Seat Test Setup
X-1A Ejection Seat Test Setup

Bell X-1A ejection seat test setup.

Dryden People
Dryden People

NACA pilot John Griffith hands his flight gear to Dick Payne as crew members Ed Edwards and Clyde Bailey look…

F-15B Supersonic Natural Laminar Flow Experiment
F-15B Supersonic Natural Laminar Flow Experiment

F-15B on ramp showing closeup of the Supersonic Natural Laminar Flow (SS-NLF) experiment attached vertically to the centerline pylon.

F-15B Local Mach Investigation Instrumentation
F-15B Local Mach Investigation Instrumentation

NASA's F-15B Research Testbed aircraft flew instrumentation in June 2004 called the Local Mach Investigation (LMI), designed to gather local…