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F-15B Research Support Aircraft
F-15B Research Support Aircraft

NASA's highly modified F-15, being used for digital electronic flight and engine control systems research, is seen here on a…

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

NASA's F-15B Research Testbed aircraft recently flew in the supersonic shock wave of a U.S. Navy F-5E in support of…

Flight Research Pilots
Flight Research Pilots

Bill Dana after HL-10 Lifting Body Flight.

Fleet Aircraft
Fleet Aircraft

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

Landing after First Evaluation Flight
Landing after First Evaluation Flight

Approaching the runway after the first evaluation flight of the Quiet Spike project, NASA's F-15B testbed aircraft cruised over Roger's…

Ground Vibration Tests for Quiet Spike
Ground Vibration Tests for Quiet Spike

NASA Dryden's F-15B testbed aircraft with the Gulfstream Quiet Spike sonic boom mitigator attached undergoes ground vibration testing in preparation…

Quiet Spike Installed on F-15B #836
Quiet Spike Installed on F-15B #836

Gulfstream's Quiet Spike sonic boom mitigator being installed on NASA DFRC's F-15B testbed aircraft. The project seeks to verify the…

Testing the Structural Integrity of Telescopic ‘Quiet Spike’ Sonic Boom Mitigator
Testing the Structural Integrity of Telescopic ‘Quiet Spike’ Sonic Boom Mitigator

Gulfstream Aerospace and NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center tested the structural integrity of a telescopic 'Quiet Spike' sonic boom mitigator…

F-15B Lands with Quiet Spike
F-15B Lands with Quiet Spike

NASA F-15B #836 landed with Quiet Spike attached. The project sought to verify the structural integrity of the multi-segmented, articulating…

Flight Simulators
Flight Simulators

Flight Simulators