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F-15A Highly Integrated Digital Electronic Control
F-15A Highly Integrated Digital Electronic Control

NASA's highly modified F-15 (left), used for digital electronic flight and engine control systems research, was accompanied by an F-18…

F-15A Highly Integrated Digital Electronic Control
F-15A Highly Integrated Digital Electronic Control

NASA's F-15A Highly Integrated Digital Electronic Control (HIDEC) aircraft nears the runway after a flight out of NASA's Dryden Flight…

F-15A Highly Integrated Digital Electronic Control
F-15A Highly Integrated Digital Electronic Control

An F-15A used by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Facility (now Center), Edwards, Calif., for digital electronic flight and engine control…

F-15A Highly Integrated Digital Electronic Control
F-15A Highly Integrated Digital Electronic Control

NASA's highly modified F-15A (Serial #71-0287) used for digital electronic flight and engine control systems research, at sunrise on the…

Flight Research Pilots
Flight Research Pilots

In August 1947, Howard Clifton Lilly became the first permanently assigned NACA engineering test pilot at the National Advisory Committee…

B-52 Carries M2-F2 Aloft
B-52 Carries M2-F2 Aloft

The M2-F2 Lifting Body is carried aloft by the Air Force's B-52 (tail number 003) prior to a research launch.

Technicians Service X-1 in Preparation for Flight
Technicians Service X-1 in Preparation for Flight

Technicians servicing the Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1 in preparation for a flight.

Aircraft Fleet 1960s
Aircraft Fleet 1960s

Hangar 4802 at the NASA Flight Research Center in 1966.

X-29 Ship #2 on its First Flight
X-29 Ship #2 on its First Flight

This photo, taken from a chase plane below the aircraft, shows the number two X-29 on its first flight, May…

B-29 Mothership Aircraft
B-29 Mothership Aircraft

B-29 #800 with X-1B attached taxi's in off of the lakebed.