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HL-10 Lifting Body
HL-10 Lifting Body

The HL-10 lifting body is seen here in flight over Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards AFB. After the vehicle’s fins…

B377SGT Super Guppy on Ramp Loading the X-24B and HL-10 Lifting Bodies
B377SGT Super Guppy on Ramp Loading the X-24B and HL-10 Lifting Bodies

The Aero Spacelines B377SGT Super Guppy was at Dryden in May, 1976 to ferry the X-24 and HL-10 lifting bodies…

HL-10 on Lakebed with B-52 Flyby
HL-10 on Lakebed with B-52 Flyby

NASA research pilot Bill Dana takes a moment to watch NASA’s NB-52B cruise overhead after a research flight in the…

HL-10 Lifting Body
HL-10 Lifting Body

Pilot Major Jerauld R. Gentry stands in front of the HL-10 Lifting Body. Gentry was the Air Force project pilot…

HL-10 on a Pedestal at Sunset
HL-10 on a Pedestal at Sunset

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

HL-10 Lifting Body
HL-10 Lifting Body

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

X-15A-2 and HL-10 parked on NASA Ramp
X-15A-2 and HL-10 parked on NASA Ramp

The HL-10 was one of five heavyweight lifting-body designs flown at NASA’s Flight Research Center (FRC-later Dryden Flight Research Center),…

HL-10 Subsonic Control Surface Configuration
HL-10 Subsonic Control Surface Configuration

The HL-10 is shown on the lakebed with its subsonic control surface configuration. The unusual shapes of the lifting bodies,…

HL-10
HL-10

The HL-10 in flight, turning to line up with lakebed runway 18. Bill Dana was the pilot for this flight,…

HL-10 Lifting Body
HL-10 Lifting Body

Air Force Major Peter Hoag stands in front of the HL-10 Lifting Body. Maj. Hoag joined the HL-10 program in…