
Flight Research Center and Dryden Flight Research Center engineer R. Dale Reed has long used free-flight models to test new…

X-45A in flight with F-18 #846 chase aircraft, during first GPS-guided weapon demonstration flight.

A collection of NASA's research aircraft on the ramp at the Dryden Flight Research Center in July 1997: X-31, F-15B,…

After the M2-F1 (on the viewer's left) proved the lifting-body concept, NASA and the Air Force began work on a…

X-45A first GPS-guided weapon demonstration - weapon release.

The Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1-1 (#46-062) in flight.

Air Force Capt. Jerauld Gentry, shown with the M2-F2, made a total of 30 lifting-body flights in 5 different vehicles…

X-40A landing after free flight 4A.

Smoke generators in the nose of the X-29 aircraft were used to help researchers see the behavior of the air…

The wingless, lifting body aircraft sitting on Rogers Dry Lake at what is now NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards,…