
Aircraft Fleet 1980s

This artist's conception showed the X-37 Advanced Technology Demonstrator in the Shuttle Payload Bay.

Vance D. Brand August 20, 1998

Cockpit instrument panel of the M2-F3 Lifting Body.

The first X-45A Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) technology demonstrator completed its sixth flight on Dec. 19, 2002, raising its…

The Space Shuttle Endeavour, mounted securely atop one of NASA's modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.

Einar Enevoldson was a civilian research pilot for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Hugh L. Dryden Flight Research Center,…

The Theseus prototype research aircraft being assembled at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., in May of 1996.

A head-on view of the M2-F2 lifting body mounted on the wing pylon of its B-52 mothership in 1965.

The deployable, inflatable wing technology demonstrator experiment separates from its carrier aircraft during a flight conducted by the NASA Dryden…