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

Bell X-1A ejection seat test setup.

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

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

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

A close-up of the panels on the F-15B's flight test fixture showed five divots of thermal protection system (TPS) foam…

The X-15A-2 with drop tanks and ablative coating is shown parked on the NASA ramp in front of the XB-70.

This photo shows NASA's PIK-20 motor-glider sailplane on the ramp at the Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif.

Bradley C. Flick

The unusual design of the Proteus high-altitude aircraft, incorporating a gull-wing shape for its main wing and a long, slender…