
The Douglas D-558-I #2 Skystreak is pictured here with test pilot Eugene May (Douglas Aircraft Company) on the left and…

NASA Dryden Flight Research Center's chief pilot Gordon Fullerton in the cockpit of the Center's T-38 Talon mission support aircraft.

Bell X-1B, fitted with a reaction control system, posed on the lakebed.

The Douglas D-558-I Skystreak is seen close-up in this early 1950's in-flight photograph. Although less well known than the X-1,…

The Douglas D-558-I Skystreak is seen close-up in this 1949 photograph. The D-558-I made its landing approach at about 210…

The Bell Aircraft Company X-2 (46-674) drops away from its Boeing B-50 mothership.

F/A-18B aircraft in flight, used as a safety chase and support aircraft on Dryden research missions.

As news media and city officials watch from the balcony of the city baseball stadium in Lancaster, Calif., a crane…

An F/A-18 aircraft formerly flown by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., is lifted by crane toward what has…

Two NASA F/A-18s flown by NASA Dryden research pilots Jim Smolka and Nils Larson cruise over the Texas landscape after…