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

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

This photo shows the Navy P2B-1S in the background with Dick Payne, Stan Butchart, and Joe Walker standing in front…

This under-the-nose view of the modified F/A-18 Systems Research Aircraft at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, showed three…

This look-down view of NASA's two X-29 research aircraft shows the aircraft lit by the golden rays of early morning…

NACA pilot A. Scott Crossfield next to the D-558-II after first Mach 2 flight.

In this 1956 photograph the Douglas D-558-II #1 is shown venting liquid oxigen (LOX).

This photograph shows the Air Force C-141A that was used in the Eclipse project as a tow vehicle. The project…

Stan Butchart joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics' (NACA) High-Speed Flight Research Station on May 10, 1951.

F/A-18 Systems Research Aircraft (SRA) in flight.