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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The X-31 Enhanced Fighter Maneuverability Technology Demonstrator Aircraft was secured inside the fuselage of an Air Force Reserve C-5 transport.

The X-1E guards NASA Dryden Flight Research Center's main building.