
F/A-18B aircraft in flight, used as a safety chase and support aircraft on Dryden research missions.

F/A-18B aircraft in flight, used as a safety chase and support aircraft on Dryden research missions.

Dryden F/A-18 cockpit showing an ultraviolet imaging camera used for an experiment to capture images of an asteroid eclipsing a…

The Southwest Research Institute’s SWUIS-A digital imaging system, including a sophisticated Xybion camera and associated control equipment, was installed on…

Prior to his retirement in January 2013, Mark Pestana was a research pilot and project manager at NASA’s Dryden (now…

The Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1E in 1955 on the Rogers Dry Lakebed near the NACA High-Speed Flight Station, Edwards, CA.

NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station, Aircraft Fleet 1950’s

Custom-contoured radient heater system for the YF-12 forebody.

The Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1E is shown in this artistic night photo taken in February 1996.

EC83-28021This posed photograph of the Controlled Impact Demonstration (CID) cockpit features Fitz Fulton at the controls. This simulation was located…