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Aircraft Fleet 1950’s
Aircraft Fleet 1950’s

NASA Research Aircrafts

X-1-2 with the Boeing B-29 Launch Ship
X-1-2 with the Boeing B-29 Launch Ship

The Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1-2 sitting on the ramp at NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station with the Boeing B-29 launch…

Flight Research Pilots
Flight Research Pilots

Joseph A. Walker was a Chief Research Pilot at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center during the mid-1960s.

Validating Technologies for the Centurion/Helios Prototype
Validating Technologies for the Centurion/Helios Prototype

Pathfinder-Plus on a flight in 1998 over Hawaiian waters.

Aircraft Fleet 1990s
Aircraft Fleet 1990s

The three thrust-vectoring aircraft at Edwards, Calif., each capable of flying at extreme angles of attack, cruise over the California…

F-111 Advanced Fighter Technology Integration
F-111 Advanced Fighter Technology Integration

View of the right cockpit of the F-111 Mission Adaptive Wing (MAW) aircraft. Unlike most fighter aircraft of the time,…

F-111 Advanced Fighter Technology Integration
F-111 Advanced Fighter Technology Integration

View of the left cockpit and pilot's seat of the F-111 Mission Adaptive Wing (MAW) aircraft.

F-111 Advanced Fighter Technology Integration
F-111 Advanced Fighter Technology Integration

A modified General Dynamics AFTI/F-111A Aardvark with supercritical mission adaptive wings (MAW) installed is shown. The aircraft is in a…

F-111 Advanced Fighter Technology Integration
F-111 Advanced Fighter Technology Integration

A modified General Dynamics AFTI/F-111A Aardvark with supercritical mission adaptive wings (MAW) installed is shown. The AFTI/F111A is seen banking…

F-15A Flight Research Facility
F-15A Flight Research Facility

An in-flight photo of the NASA F-15A (foreground) used to carry a 10-degree cone to collect aerodynamic data to calibrate…