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Cowboy Joe Walker and his X-1A Steed
Cowboy Joe Walker and his X-1A Steed

Cowboy Joe (NACA High-Speed Flight Station test pilot Joseph Walker) and his steed (Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1A).

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

Boeing 727
Boeing 727

A Boeing 727 jetliner is shown in this 1974 NASA Flight Research Center photograph taking part in a wake vortex…

Fleet Aircraft
Fleet Aircraft

NASA Research Aircraft - D-558-II, D-558-I, X-5, X-1, XF-92A, and X-4.

Flight Research Pilots
Flight Research Pilots

M2-F3 Lifting Body PilotsE-22901 Posing for this photo in front of the M2-F3 are (left-right) Air Force pilot Captain Jerauld…

Butchart on the Iron Cross Attitude Simulator
Butchart on the Iron Cross Attitude Simulator

NACA High-Speed Flight Station test pilot Stan Butchart flying the Iron Cross, the mechanical reaction control simulator.

Iron Cross Attitude Simulator
Iron Cross Attitude Simulator

The control stick used on the Iron Cross Attitude Simulator. Although it resembled today's desktop computer flight sticks, its operation…

Armstrong Aboard the Iron Cross Attitude Simulator
Armstrong Aboard the Iron Cross Attitude Simulator

Famed astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, the first human to set foot on the moon during the historic Apollo 11 space…

Eclipse
Eclipse

View of the tow cable attachment and release mechanism forward of the cockpit on the QF-106 Eclipse aircraft.

Eclipse
Eclipse

View of the cockpit and instrument panel of the QF-106 airplane used in the Eclipse project.