
This 1968 photo shows the bulbous X-24A Lifting Body research vehicle on the lakebed adjacent to the NASA Flight Research…

The X-31 Enhanced Fighter Maneuverability Technology Demonstrator Aircraft begins rolling aboard an Air Force Reserve C-5 transport.

A Rans S-12 remotely piloted "mothership" takes off from a lakebed runway carrying a Spacewedge research model during 1992 flight…

The Spacewedge subscale research model glides in toward a touchdown at a California City landing zone during 1992 flight tests…

One of the Spacewedge remotely-piloted research vehicles in flight under a steerable parafoil during 1995 research flights conducted by NASA's…

A Spacewedge subscale model, built to help develop potential autonomous recovery systems for spacecraft as well as methods for delivering…

Crew members load a Spacewedge subscale research model into a Cessna aircraft for flight testing in 1996 at the Dryden…

A collection of NASA's research aircraft on the ramp at the Dryden Flight Research Center in of July 1997.

Flight Loads Laboratory - aerial view of the ramp.

The instrumentation and equipment is seen inside the Spacewedge #3, a remotely-piloted research vehicle flown at the Dryden Flight Research…