An F-15A used by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Facility (now Center), Edwards, Calif., for digital electronic flight and engine control…
NASA's highly modified F-15A (Serial #71-0287) used for digital electronic flight and engine control systems research, at sunrise on the…
In August 1947, Howard Clifton Lilly became the first permanently assigned NACA engineering test pilot at the National Advisory Committee…
The M2-F2 Lifting Body is carried aloft by the Air Force's B-52 (tail number 003) prior to a research launch.
Technicians servicing the Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1 in preparation for a flight.
Hangar 4802 at the NASA Flight Research Center in 1966.
This photo, taken from a chase plane below the aircraft, shows the number two X-29 on its first flight, May…
B-29 #800 with X-1B attached taxi's in off of the lakebed.
The 247-foot length of the Helios prototype wing is in evidence as the high-altitude, solar-powered flying wing rests on its…
As a follow-on to the Centurion (and earlier Pathfinder and Pathfinder-Plus) aircraft, the solar-powered Helios Prototype is the latest and…