AeronauticsNASA research pilot Bill Dana stands in front of the HL-10 Lifting Body following his first glide flight on April...In August 1947, Howard Clifton Lilly became the first permanently assigned NACA engineering test pilot at the National Advisory Committee...The D-558-2 is launched from the Navy P2B-1S (Navy designation for the B-29) in this 1950s photograph. The early Douglas...The Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1E airplane being loaded under the mothership, Boeing B-29. The X planes had originally been lowered...In 1954 this photo of two swept wing airplanes was taken on the ramp of the NACA High-Speed Flight Research...A group picture of Douglas Airplanes, taken for a photographic promotion in 1954, at what is now known as the...This NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station photograph shows an aft view of the XF-92A in flight above a layer of...The photograph shows that the right delta wing and aft fuselage of the XF-92A has some tufts attached for air-flow...The final flight for the F-18 High Alpha Research Vehicle (HARV) took place at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards,...A Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1 series aircraft cockpit instruments display.A Vought F-8A Crusader was selected by NASA as the testbed aircraft (designated TF-8A) to install an experimental Supercritical Wing...This photograph is a top view of the aircraft's right side and provides a good view of the fuselage and...This photograph shows the pitot-static probe, used to measure airspeed, Mach number, and altitude, mounted on a noseboom protruding from...The Convair XF-92A aircraft was powered by an Allison J33-A turbojet engine with an afterburner, and was unique in having...This NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station photograph of the Republic XF-91 Thunderceptor, was taken in 1951 on the South Base...Convair YF-102 (53-1785) on the ramp at NACA High-Speed Flight Station, Edwards, CA, in 1955.Convair YF-102 (53-1785) on the ramp at the NACA High-Speed Flight Station, Edwards, CA, in 1955.The unique XV-15 Tiltrotor aircraft is seen in vertical flight at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center.The XV-15 Tiltrotor aircraft undergoing tests on the VTOL stand.The unique XV-15 Tiltrotor aircraft in vertical flight at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center.The XV-15 Tiltrotor ships #1 and #2 parked on the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center ramp.TF-104G #824 flies chase on NB-52B during a Drones for Aerodynamic and Structural Testing (DAST) ARW-1 captive flight. The DAST...F-104B #819 flies chase on the NB-52B #008 during the first Drones for Aerodynamic and Structural Testing (DAST) captive flight....An historic wind tunnel at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., is helping test the prototype of a new,...The U.S. Air Force's F-16D Automatic Collision Avoidance Technology (ACAT) aircraft takes off from Edwards Air Force Base on a...NASA's Glenn Research Center dedicated a model of the hybrid wing body, a futuristic aircraft concept, on July 8, 2009....A technician straps legendary test pilot Scott Crossfield into the cockpit of the X-15 rocket plane before an early test...Boeing's remotely piloted X-48B Blended Wing Body aircraft completed its 50th flight recently at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center. The...A blended wing body aircraft model used for testing in a wind tunnel at NASA's Langley Research Center now flies...Three of the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels F/A-18 jets fly in formation over the runway before landing at NASA's Kennedy...Langley researcher Elton W. Miller stands poised in the Propeller Research Tunnel, as if pondering the future of aviation in...A painter freshens up the NASA logo that adorns NASA Glenn Research Center's Flight Research Building, or airplane hangar. Affectionately...The M2-F1, the unlikely forefather to the shuttle, was the world's first manned lifting body. Made of wood with an...Nils Larson from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center shows a high altitude pressure suit, complete with whiffle ball on the...Eighty years ago this week on June 18, 1928, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic...Grady McCoy stands in the Langley Research Center's 16 foot transonic tunnel, as light reflects off the fan blades in...On December 17, 1903, two brothers from Dayton, Ohio, named Wilbur and Orville Wright, were successful in flying an airplane...NASA's X-43A research vehicle has screamed into the record books, demonstrating an air-breathing engine can fly at nearly 10 times...Pilot Bill Dana looks up as the B-52 "mothership" cruises over NASA's HL-10 "lifting body" on Muroc Dry Lake, California,...An SR-71B from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in California slices across sky above the snowy southern Sierra Nevada Mountains...
