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…
The M2-F2 lifting body undergoing tests in the Ames Research Center's 40-by-80-foot wind tunnel.
U.S. Ambassador Pickering addresses Russian and American dignitaries, industry representatives, and members of the press during a roll-out ceremony for…
The modified Tu-144LL supersonic flying laboratory is rolled out of its hangar at the Zhukovsky Air Development Center near Moscow,…
The D-558-2 is launched from the Navy P2B-1S (Navy designation for the B-29) in this 1950s photograph. The early Douglas…
A Tupolev Tu-144D supersonic jetliner is framed by the drooped nose and forward fuselage of the Tu-144LL supersonic flying laboratory…
The Tupolev Tu-144LL supersonic flying laboratory lifts off from the Zhukovsky Air Development Center near Moscow, Russia, on a 1997…