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Flight Research Pilots
Flight Research Pilots

M2-F3 Lifting Body PilotsE-22901 Posing for this photo in front of the M2-F3 are (left-right) Air Force pilot Captain Jerauld…

Butchart on the Iron Cross Attitude Simulator
Butchart on the Iron Cross Attitude Simulator

NACA High-Speed Flight Station test pilot Stan Butchart flying the Iron Cross, the mechanical reaction control simulator.

Iron Cross Attitude Simulator
Iron Cross Attitude Simulator

The control stick used on the Iron Cross Attitude Simulator. Although it resembled today's desktop computer flight sticks, its operation…

Armstrong Aboard the Iron Cross Attitude Simulator
Armstrong Aboard the Iron Cross Attitude Simulator

Famed astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, the first human to set foot on the moon during the historic Apollo 11 space…

Eclipse
Eclipse

View of the tow cable attachment and release mechanism forward of the cockpit on the QF-106 Eclipse aircraft.

Eclipse
Eclipse

View of the cockpit and instrument panel of the QF-106 airplane used in the Eclipse project.

Eclipse
Eclipse

View of QF-106 airplane for the Eclipse project taxiing on the runway at Mojave Airport, California.

Eclipse
Eclipse

The F-18 simulator cockpit was used for the F-106 simulation and Eclipse Tow Launch Demonstration project. In this project to…

Eclipse
Eclipse

The Kelly Space & Technology (KST)/USAF/NASA Eclipse project's modified QF-106 under tow by a USAF C-141A. NASA's Dryden Flight Research…

Lockheed P-3D Orion
Lockheed P-3D Orion

This photo shows the Shuttle tile flight test fixture under the wing of a National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration WP-3D…