David A. Wright was a research pilot and directorate chief in the Flight Operations Directorate at NASA's Dryden (now Armstrong)…
A roll-out of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, bomber with the Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1-2 mated and ready for flight. NACA…
The No. 2 X-29 technology demonstrator aircraft is shown as it lifts off from the runway at Edwards Air Force…
In March 1945 Joseph A. Walker joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics' Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory, Cleveland, OH, (later…
The NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station aircraft at South Base. Clockwise from far left: D-558-II, XF-92A, X-5, X-1, X-4, and…
The Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1-2 aircraft on the ramp at NACA High Speed Flight Research Station located on the South…
These people and this equipment supported the flight of the NACA D-558-2 Skyrocket at the High-Speed Flight Station at South…
A front view of the Tupolev Tu-144LL supersonic flying laboratory at the Zhukovsky Air Development Center near Moscow, Russia.
The sleek lines of the Tupolev Tu-144LL are evident as it sits on the taxiway at the Zhukovsky Air Development…
The Tupolev Tu-144LL supersonic flying laboratory touches down at the Zhukovsky Air Development Center near Moscow, Russia, following a 1997…