
This photograph taken at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, shows the large panel, called a glove, attached to…

Dryden research pilot Dana Purifoy drops NASA F-16XL #848 (ship 2) away from the tanker in the 45th flight in…

The laminar flow control panel on the left wing (dark area, forward center) of NASA’s F-16XL #2 is highly visible…

NASA Dryden Flight Research Center’s modified F-16XL conducted testing on laminar flow during an Oct. 1996 research mission over the…

Dryden research pilot Dana Purifoy drops NASA F-16XL #848 (ship 2) away from the tanker in the 45th flight in…

Dryden research pilot Dana Purifoy moves NASA F-16 XL #848 (ship 2) away from the tanker on the 44th flight…

NASA’s two-seat F-16XL #2 research aircraft is shown in the modification hangar at the Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA,…

The new look of the left wing on NASA’s F-16XL #2, following installation of a laminar flow control panel (dark…

This photo of NASA’s F-16XL #2 laminar flow control research aircraft was taken following installation of the laminar flow control…

This photograph of a test panel similiar to the one attached to the surface of an F-16XL research aircraft’s left…