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Reed’s Three Proposed Lifting Body Shapes
Reed’s Three Proposed Lifting Body Shapes

Dale Reed, who inaugurated the lifting-body flight research at NASA's Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, originally proposed that three wooden…

Flight Research Pilots
Flight Research Pilots

Air Force test pilot Robert A. Rushworth is shown in an X-15. He was selected for the X-15 program in…

Research Pilot Milt Thompson with M2-F1 Lifting Body
Research Pilot Milt Thompson with M2-F1 Lifting Body

NASA Flight Research Center pilot Milt Thompson, shown here on the lakebed with the M2-F1 lifting body, was an early…

Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) Space Shuttle Ferry
Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) Space Shuttle Ferry

EC98-44740-3The Space Shuttle orbiter Atlantis is seen here in flight on the back of one of NASA's Boeing 747 Shuttle…

Flight Research Pilots
Flight Research Pilots

Famed astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon during the historic Apollo 11 space…

Lear 24
Lear 24

NASA Dryden Flight Research Center's Lear 24, tail number 805, in flight.

Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) Space Shuttle Ferry
Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) Space Shuttle Ferry

A look-down view on the Space Shuttle orbiter Atlantis piggy-backed on top of one of NASA's Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier…

Flight Research Pilots
Flight Research Pilots

Former NASA astronaut Gordon Fullerton, seated in the cockpit of an F/A-18, was a research pilot at NASA's Dryden Flight…

Dryden People
Dryden People

The NASA Hugh L. Dryden Flight Research Center's Life Support staff is a very important group of people.

M2-F1 Used as Check-Out Vehicle for Other Pilots
M2-F1 Used as Check-Out Vehicle for Other Pilots

After the initial M2-F1 airtow flights, the NASA Flight Research Center used the vehicle to check out other pilots.