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F-15B Supporting the  X-33 Thermal Protection System Experiment
F-15B Supporting the X-33 Thermal Protection System Experiment

In-flight photo of the NASA F-15B used in tests of the X-33 Thermal Protection System (TPS) materials. Flying at subsonic…

Mission Control Room of the Western Aeronautical Test Range (WATR)
Mission Control Room of the Western Aeronautical Test Range (WATR)

This photo shows monitors in a Dryden Flight Research Center mission control room of the Western Aeronautical Test Range (WATR).

Flight Research Pilots
Flight Research Pilots

SOFIA Flight Crew

Proteus and F/A-18 in Low-Level Fly By
Proteus and F/A-18 in Low-Level Fly By

Scaled Composites' Proteus aircraft and an F/A-18 Hornet from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center during a low-level flyby at Las…

Fleet Aircraft
Fleet Aircraft

Four different versions of the F-16 were used by Dryden in the 1990s.

F-15B Supporting the Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration
F-15B Supporting the Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration

NASA's F-15B research testbed jet from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center flew in the supersonic shockwave of a Northrop-Grumman Corp.…

F-15B Shuttle Foam Insulation Test
F-15B Shuttle Foam Insulation Test

Test panels covered with an advanced foam insulation material for the Space Shuttle's giant external fuel tank were test flown…

F-15B
F-15B

NASA's two modified F-15B research aircraft joined up for a fly-over of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, CA,…

Flight Simulators – Apex Remotely PIloted Sailplane
Flight Simulators – Apex Remotely PIloted Sailplane

The Apex test vehicle was to have been a remotely piloted, highly modified commercial sailplane.

X-31 and Additional Research Aircraft
X-31 and Additional Research Aircraft

A group photo of research aircraft at NASA's Ames/Dryden Flight Research Facility in 1993.