This NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station photograph is a close-up view showing an engineer calibrating the trailing edge flap of…
Helios Prototype Flying Wing performing a low-altitude test flight over Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards, Calif.
Helios Prototype Flying Wing performing a test flight over Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards, Calif.
The Helios Prototype flying wing stretches almost the full length of the 300-foot-long hangar at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center,…
The Helios Prototype is an enlarged version of the Centurion flying wing, which flew a series of test flights at…
The HL-10, seen here parked on the ramp, was one of five lifting body designs flown at NASA's Dryden Flight…
The HL-10, seen here parked on the ramp, was one of five lifting body designs flown at NASA's Dryden Flight…
As shown in this photo of the HL-10 flight simulator, the lifting-body pilots and engineers made use of early simulators…
Milt Thompson was hired as an engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics' (NACA) High-Speed Flight Station (later renamed…
This 1953 NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station photograph shows the Douglas D-558-2 #2 Skyrocket (NACA 144), prior to flight, being…