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Joseph A. Walker was a Chief Research Pilot at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center during the mid-1960s.

Pathfinder-Plus on a flight in 1998 over Hawaiian waters.

The three thrust-vectoring aircraft at Edwards, Calif., each capable of flying at extreme angles of attack, cruise over the California…

View of the right cockpit of the F-111 Mission Adaptive Wing (MAW) aircraft. Unlike most fighter aircraft of the time,…

View of the left cockpit and pilot's seat of the F-111 Mission Adaptive Wing (MAW) aircraft.

A modified General Dynamics AFTI/F-111A Aardvark with supercritical mission adaptive wings (MAW) installed is shown. The aircraft is in a…

A modified General Dynamics AFTI/F-111A Aardvark with supercritical mission adaptive wings (MAW) installed is shown. The AFTI/F111A is seen banking…

An in-flight photo of the NASA F-15A (foreground) used to carry a 10-degree cone to collect aerodynamic data to calibrate…

F-15A #281 in flight over Mojave. NASA obtained the "A" model from the U.S. Air Force on Jan. 5, 1976,…

F-15 #281 (foreground) and F-104 #826 fly in formation during Space Shuttle tile testing.