
A new "Smart Skin" antenna, shown here on top of the right vertical stabilizer of the F/A-18 Systems Rearch Aircraft…

An HD camera is mounted behind the head-up display of NASA's F/A-18 Systems Research Aircraft (SRA). NASA is partnering with…

Gulfstream pilot Tom Horne prepared to fly an External Vision System project flight from the backseat of NASA's F/A-18 Systems…

NASA Dryden Flight Research Center's Systems Research Aircraft (SRA), a highly modified F/A-18 jet fighter, during a research flight.

The NASA F/A-18 Systems Research Aircraft (SRA), specially modified to test the newest and most advanced system technologies, on its…

NASA's F/A-18 Hornet is seen here in a banked turn over Rogers Dry Lake in the Mojave desert on an…

NASA Dryden Flight Research Center's Systems Research Aircraft (SRA), a highly modified F/A-18 jet fighter, on an early research flight…

The vertical stabilizers in NASA's F/A-18 Systems Research Aircraft were no longer mirror images of each other. A new "Smart…

The unusual lines of the X-36 technology demonstrator contrasted sharply with the desert floor as the remotely piloted aircraft flew…

The X-36 technology demonstrator shows off its distinctive shape as the remotely piloted aircraft flies a research mission over the…