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F-15B: Airborne Tests of Improved Space-Based Communications
F-15B: Airborne Tests of Improved Space-Based Communications

NASA’s highly modified NF-15B research aircraft cruised over Southern California’s Tehachapi Mountains near Lake Isabella during a research mission.

SBRDC: State-of-the-Art Space-Based Communication Links
SBRDC: State-of-the-Art Space-Based Communication Links

Range safety and phased-array range user system antennas validated in the ECANS project can be seen just behind the cockpit…

Autonomous Modular Scanner Used Over Lake Isabella
Autonomous Modular Scanner Used Over Lake Isabella

This 3-D illustration shows the real-time, mid-mission flight track of NASA’s Ikhana remotely piloted aircraft over Southern California’s Lake Isabella…

Post-Fire Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation Collected by Ikhana
Post-Fire Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation Collected by Ikhana

NASA’s Autonomous Modular Scanner, carried in a pod under the wing of the Agency’s remotely piloted Predator B, Ikhana, collected…

F-104, T-38, and F-18 in Formation Flight
F-104, T-38, and F-18 in Formation Flight

Three types of aircraft used as chase aircraft in support of research flights at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards,…

Dryden Research Aircraft Fleet on Ramp
Dryden Research Aircraft Fleet on Ramp

A group photo of research aircraft at NASA’s Ames/Dryden Flight Research Facility in 1993 (redesignated the Dryden Flight Research Center…

Three Lifting Bodies on Lakebed
Three Lifting Bodies on Lakebed

The wingless, lifting body aircraft sitting on Rogers Dry Lake at what is now NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards,…

SR-71B – in Flight with F/A-18 Chase Aircraft
SR-71B – in Flight with F/A-18 Chase Aircraft

NASA 831, an SR-71B operated by the Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., cruises over the Mojave Desert with an…

YF-12A in Flight Undergoing ‘Coldwall’ Heat Transfer Experiment
YF-12A in Flight Undergoing ‘Coldwall’ Heat Transfer Experiment

The YF-12C was the second production SR-71A (61-7951), modified with YF-12A inlets and engines, and given a bogus tail number…

ER-2 High Altitude Research Aircraft During Take Off
ER-2 High Altitude Research Aircraft During Take Off

ER-2 tail number 709, is one of two Airborne Science ER-2s used as science platforms by Dryden. The aircraft are…