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Flow Visualization Facility
Flow Visualization Facility

This image shows a plastic 1/48-scale model of an F/A-18 aircraft inside the "Water Tunnel" more formally known as the…

Tufts Used for Air-Flow Analysis
Tufts Used for Air-Flow Analysis

The photograph shows that the right delta wing and aft fuselage of the XF-92A has some tufts attached for air-flow…

Flight Research Pilots
Flight Research Pilots

Former NACA test pilot Scott Crossfield at the 1998 "Men of Mach 2" symposium, an event celebrating his work in…

SRA Evaluates Human Factors Technology
SRA Evaluates Human Factors Technology

NASA Dryden Flight Research Center's F/A-18B Systems Research Aircraft on an External Vision System project flight.

X-1
X-1

Technicians servicing the Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1 in preparation for a flight. The X-1 is mated with the Boeing B-29.…

F/A-18 High Alpha Research Vehicle
F/A-18 High Alpha Research Vehicle

Pressure transducers are located in the tiny holes visible on the engine inlet lip of NASA's F/A-18 High Alpha Research…

F/A-18 High Alpha Research Vehicle
F/A-18 High Alpha Research Vehicle

NASA 840, also known as the F/A-18 High Alpha Research Vehicle (HARV), was used to carry out high angle of…

D-558-II Skyrocket
D-558-II Skyrocket

Scott Crossfield in the cockpit of the Douglas D-558-II after the first Mach 2 flight.

D-558-II Skyrocket
D-558-II Skyrocket

Left side view of D-558-II Skyrocket on ramp at South Base in 1949.

D-558-II Skyrocket
D-558-II Skyrocket

This 1953 NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station photograph shows the Douglas D-558-II #2 Skyrocket (NACA 144), prior to flight, being…