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Left Wing of Boeing 720 Drops During CID
Left Wing of Boeing 720 Drops During CID

The B-720 is seen viewed moments after impact and just before hitting the wing openers.

Hyper III Remotely Piloted Research Vehicle
Hyper III Remotely Piloted Research Vehicle

Left to right: Richard C. Eldredge, Dale Reed, James O. Newman, and Bob McDonald with the mothership (top) and other…

Hyper III Remotely Piloted Research Vehicle
Hyper III Remotely Piloted Research Vehicle

The Hyper III was a low-cost test vehicle for an advanced lifting-body shape. Like the earlier M2-F1, it was a…

Hyper III Remotely Piloted Research Vehicle
Hyper III Remotely Piloted Research Vehicle

The Hyper III was a full-scale lifting-body remotely piloted research vehicle (RPRV) built at what was then the NASA Flight…

Avionics Laboratory
Avionics Laboratory

Alma Warner (front) and Karen Estes use sophisticated computer software programming to calibrate a gyro package in the Avionics lab…

Fleet Aircraft
Fleet Aircraft

The wingless, lifting body aircraft sitting on Rogers Dry Lake at what is now NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards,…

Early Tow Test of the M2-F1 Lifting Body
Early Tow Test of the M2-F1 Lifting Body

The M2-F1 lifting body, dubbed the "flying bathtub" by the media, was the precursor of a remarkable series of wingless…

Soaring Over Las Cruces
Soaring Over Las Cruces

Proteus in flight over mountains near Las Cruces, NM.

X-1-2 on the Rogers Dry Lakebed
X-1-2 on the Rogers Dry Lakebed

The Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1-2 sat on the Rogers Dry Lakebed at Muroc Air Force Base, CA in 1949.

Flight Research Pilots
Flight Research Pilots

Jack McKay was one of the first pilots assigned to the X-15 flight research program at NASA's Flight Research Center,…