AeronauticsCleveland's Glenn Research Center began as the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA's predecessor)....This 1964 photograph shows a full scale model of the HL-10 lifting body mounted in the Full Scale Tunnel at...This 1987 image shows scientists testing a model aircraft in the Langley Research Center's Spin Tunnel. Some aircraft use parachutes...Technician Durwood Dereng prepares to pull the external-power plug from an E17 drag-research model at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on...This 1958 photograph shows test pilot Joseph Walker in a pressure suit beside the X-1E at the NASA High-Speed Flight...The Glenn Research Center's Icing Research Tunnel is the world's largest refrigerated wind tunnel. During tests of a heated-air system...Workers at NASA's Lewis (now Glenn) Research Center observe as a commuter transport engine undergoes testing in the Icing Research...NASA engineer and test pilot Bruce Peterson (right) discusses the M2-F2 Lifting Body airplane with actor James Doohan, who played...This Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) computer generated image shows a model of the space shuttle. CFD has taken the place...This 1992 photograph shows a world record breaking paper airplane inside a hangar at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia.The four principal HL-10 pilots are seen here with the lifting body aircraft. From left to right, they are Air...In this 1948 photograph, test pilot Lawrence Clousing climbs into his Lockheed P-80 aircraft for a test flight at the...This 1992 photo shows an F-16 Scamp model being tested in the Basic Aerodynamics Research Tunnel or BART, at NASA's...In the turbulent era of 1960s Cold War confrontations, Moon race headlines, and war in southeast Asia, eight test pilots...The KC-135 with the winglets in flight over the San Gabriel mountains, south of Edwards AFB. Flight tests showed drag...
