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…
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…
