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F-8 Supercritical Wing
F-8 Supercritical Wing

A Vought F-8A Crusader was selected by NASA as the testbed aircraft (designated TF-8A) to install an experimental Supercritical Wing…

F/A-18 Systems Research Aircraft
F/A-18 Systems Research Aircraft

The right vertical stabilizer of NASA's F/A-18 Systems Research Aircraft now sports a green fiberglass end cap.

Pilot Briefing on YO-3A Flight Instruments
Pilot Briefing on YO-3A Flight Instruments

NASA pilot Ed Lewis (rear) briefs NASA test pilot Dick Ewers on the flight instruments of NASA's YO-3A acoustics research…

Autonomous Soaring Project
Autonomous Soaring Project

A NASA remote-controlled model motorized sailplane lies over Rogers Dry Lake to test the theory that catching heat thermals extends…

Overhead Shot of Pathfinder-Plus
Overhead Shot of Pathfinder-Plus

With its sensor booms projecting ahead of the wing, the Pathfinder-Plus solar wing soared under a blue sky on its…

F/A-18 Systems Research Aircraft
F/A-18 Systems Research Aircraft

NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., used this modified F/A-18 aircraft, also known as the Systems Research Aircraft (SRA),…

X-29 over California’s Mojave Desert
X-29 over California’s Mojave Desert

This look-down view of the X-29 research aircraft in flight over California's Mojave Desert shows its striking and unique forward…

Autonomous Soaring Project
Autonomous Soaring Project

A NASA model motorized sailplane catches a thermal during one of 17 flights to demonstrate that updrafts can extend flight…

Autonomous Soaring Project
Autonomous Soaring Project

A NASA remote-controlled model motorized sailplane lies over Rogers Dry Lake to test the theory that catching heat thermals extends…

F/A-18 Systems Research Aircraft
F/A-18 Systems Research Aircraft

NASA Dryden Flight Research Center's F-18 Systems Research Aircraft (SRA) in flight.