
NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., used this early-model F/A-18 Hornet as a flying research platform to evaluate emerging…

The wingless lifting body aircraft sitting on Rogers Dry Lake at NASA's Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, from left to…

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

ED97-44244-1The XB-70 #1 cockpit, which shows the complexity of this mid-1960s research aircraft. On the left and right sides of…

AeroVironment engineers and technicians closely monitored flight data in the ground control station during the Pathfinder-Plus' turbulence measurement flights.

A highly modified F/A-18B Hornet flown by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center settles toward the runway at Edwards Air Force…

The X-24B is seen here landing on Rogers Dry Lake, adjacent to the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.

The figure standing on the ramp provides a size comparison with the XB-70A aircraft.

The Pathfinder-Plus solar-electric flying wing lifted off Rogers Dry Lake adjoining NASA Dryden Flight Research Center on a turbulence-measurement flight.

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