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X-24B Lifting Body Glides to a Landing on Rogers Dry Lake
X-24B Lifting Body Glides to a Landing on Rogers Dry Lake

This 1975 photo shows the X-24B lifting body gliding to a landing on Rogers Dry Lake, adjacent to the NASA…

D-558-I Skystreak
D-558-I Skystreak

The Douglas D-558-I Skystreak is seen close-up in this 1949 photograph. The D-558-I made its landing approach at about 210…

D-558-I Skystreak
D-558-I Skystreak

The Douglas D-558-I Skystreak is seen close-up in this early 1950’s in-flight photograph. Although less well known than the X-1,…

Another Angle of X-1B, Fitted with Reaction Control System
Another Angle of X-1B, Fitted with Reaction Control System

Bell X-1B, fitted with a reaction control system, posed on the lakebed.

F/A-18 Chase Aircraft
F/A-18 Chase Aircraft

A large crane gingerly lowers an F/A-18 Hornet aircraft onto a 28-foot-tall pedestal in front of the municipal baseball stadium…

F/A-18 Chase Aircraft
F/A-18 Chase Aircraft

Two NASA F/A-18s flown by NASA Dryden research pilots Jim Smolka and Nils Larson cruise over the Texas landscape after…

F/A-18 Chase Aircraft
F/A-18 Chase Aircraft

An F/A-18 aircraft formerly flown by NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., is lifted by crane toward what has…

F/A-18 Chase Aircraft
F/A-18 Chase Aircraft

As news media and city officials watch from the balcony of the city baseball stadium in Lancaster, Calif., a crane…

F/A-18 Chase Aircraft
F/A-18 Chase Aircraft

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

X-2 Drops Away from Boeing B-50 Mothership
X-2 Drops Away from Boeing B-50 Mothership

The Bell Aircraft Company X-2 (46-674) drops away from its Boeing B-50 mothership.