
Taking off on a flight from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, is NASA's Landing Systems Research Aircraft (LSRA),…

The M2-F1 Lifting Body is seen here testing its "instant L/D rocket" on the lakebed at NASA's Flight Research Center,…

One of two X-31 Enhanced Fighter Maneuverability Demonstrator aircraft, flown by an international test organization at NASA's Dryden Flight Research…

This early simulator of the M2-F1 lifting body was used for pilot training, to test landing techniques before the first…

Edwin W. Lewis Jr. was a research pilot in the Airborne Science program, Flight Crew Branch, Dryden Flight Research Center,…

Simulation Group Leader Martha Evans is at the controls of the F-18 aircraft simulator at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center,…

David D. McBride

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

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

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