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CV-990 Landing Systems Research Aircraft
CV-990 Landing Systems Research Aircraft

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

M2-F1 Tests Instant L/D Rocket on Lakebed
M2-F1 Tests Instant L/D Rocket on Lakebed

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

Tight Turn over the Desert Floor by X-31
Tight Turn over the Desert Floor by X-31

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

Early M2-F1 Simulator
Early M2-F1 Simulator

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

Flight Research Pilots
Flight Research Pilots

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

F-18 Simulator
F-18 Simulator

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

Dryden People
Dryden People

David D. McBride

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…