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F-15B Shuttle Foam Insulation Test
F-15B Shuttle Foam Insulation Test

Test panels covered with an advanced foam insulation material for the Space Shuttle's giant external fuel tank were test flown…

F-15B
F-15B

NASA's two modified F-15B research aircraft joined up for a fly-over of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, CA,…

Flight Simulators – Apex Remotely PIloted Sailplane
Flight Simulators – Apex Remotely PIloted Sailplane

The Apex test vehicle was to have been a remotely piloted, highly modified commercial sailplane.

X-31 and Additional Research Aircraft
X-31 and Additional Research Aircraft

A group photo of research aircraft at NASA's Ames/Dryden Flight Research Facility in 1993.

X-24B Glides to a Landing on Rogers Dry Lake
X-24B Glides to a Landing on Rogers Dry Lake

This 1975 photo shows the X-24B lifting body, with a Lockheed F-104N chase plane in formation beside it, gliding to…

Northrop Grumman E-2C Hawkeye
Northrop Grumman E-2C Hawkeye

echnicians at NASA Dryden's Flight Loads Lab install a fixture inside an engine nacelle in preparation for major structural loads…

Northrop Grumman E-2C Hawkeye
Northrop Grumman E-2C Hawkeye

Left to right: Engineers Paul Lundstrom and Larry Reardon monitor forces applied by structural loads equipment during tests on a…

Northrop Grumman E-2C Hawkeye
Northrop Grumman E-2C Hawkeye

A Navy E-2C Hawkeye early-warning aircraft arrives at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center for extensive structural loads tests in Dryden's…

Flight Research Pilots
Flight Research Pilots

Gordon Fullerton was a research pilot at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.

Fleet Aircraft
Fleet Aircraft

Early NACA research aircraft on the lakebed at the High-Speed Research Station in 1955.