Not every moment of a test pilot's day is serious business. In a moment of levity, NASA pilots Bill Dana…
The HL-10 Lifting Body completes its first research flight with a landing on Rogers Dry Lake. Due to control problems,…
The HL-10 Lifting Body is seen here parked on Rogers Dry Lake, the unique location where it landed after research…
The HL-10, seen here parked on the ramp at NASA's Flight Research Center in 1966, had a radically different shape…
This 1953 NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station photograph shows the wing chord extensions added to D-558-II #3. The added width…
Viewed in this 1954 photograph is the NACA High Speed Flight Research Station's D-558-II #2 (144), an all rocket powered…
Bill Dana was Chief Engineer at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, from 1993 until 1998, when he retired…
The No. 1 X-29 advanced technology demonstrator aircraft banks over desert terrain near NASA's Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA.
The F-8 Digital Fly-By-Wire aircraft in flight. The computer-controlled flight systems pioneered by the F-8 DFBW created a revolution in…
The Apollo hardware jammed into the F-8C. The computer is partially visible in the avionics bay at the top of…
