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Helios Prototype Flying Wing
Helios Prototype Flying Wing

As a follow-on to the Centurion (and earlier Pathfinder and Pathfinder-Plus) aircraft, the solar-powered Helios Prototype is the latest and…

Helios Prototype Flying Wing
Helios Prototype Flying Wing

Helios Prototype Flying Wing in flight.

Helios Prototype Flying Wing
Helios Prototype Flying Wing

The Helios Prototype is an enlarged version of the Centurion flying wing, which flew a series of test flights at…

Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) Space Shuttle Ferry
Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) Space Shuttle Ferry

Space Shuttle Discovery being unloaded from NASA's Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) at Rockwell Aerospace's Palmdale facility for nine…

Hydraulic Lifts Lower B-29 Mothership over X-1E
Hydraulic Lifts Lower B-29 Mothership over X-1E

The Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1E airplane being loaded under the mothership, Boeing B-29.

MD-11 Flight Simulator with Gordon Fullerton at the Controls
MD-11 Flight Simulator with Gordon Fullerton at the Controls

MD-11 Flight Simulator with Gordon Fullerton at the Controls

F-15B #837 Flies ACTIVE Advanced Engine Technologies
F-15B #837 Flies ACTIVE Advanced Engine Technologies

The F-15B used for the Advanced Control Technology for Integrated Vehicles (ACTIVE) project, seen in flight above the Mojave desert…

F-15B Advanced Control Technology for Integrated Vehicles
F-15B Advanced Control Technology for Integrated Vehicles

Pilots Larry Walker and Rogers Smith gathered Jet Interaction Effects and Intelligent Flight Controls data during a November 1996 Phase…

F-15B During ACTIVE Project Flight
F-15B During ACTIVE Project Flight

NASA's F-15B research aircraft flew over the desert near Boron, CA, as it headed back to NASA's Dryden Flight Research…

Multi-Axis Thrust-Vectoring Engine Exhaust Nozzles on F-15B
Multi-Axis Thrust-Vectoring Engine Exhaust Nozzles on F-15B

Sporting a brilliant red, white, and blue paint job, this highly-modified F-15B (Serial #71-0290) was flown in the Advanced Control…