As a very young undergraduate student at Johns Hopkins University Hugh L. Dryden proved himself especially gifted in physics and…
The aircraft in this 1953 photo of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) hangar at South Base of Edwards…
NACA pilot John Griffith hands his flight gear to Dick Payne as crew members Ed Edwards and Clyde Bailey look…
Bell X-1A ejection seat test setup.
The primary goal of the SuperSonic Natural Laminar Flow experiment was to investigate the extent and stability of natural laminar…
In a role-reversal, Northrop Grumman Corp.’s modified F-5E Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration (SSBD) aircraft flies off the wing of NASA’s…
A close-up of the panels on the F-15B’s flight test fixture showed five divots of thermal protection system (TPS) foam…
NASA’s F-15B Research Testbed aircraft flew instrumentation in June 2004 called the Local Mach Investigation (LMI), designed to gather local…
F-15B on ramp showing closeup of the Supersonic Natural Laminar Flow (SS-NLF) experiment attached vertically to the centerline pylon.
The X-15A-2 with drop tanks and ablative coating is shown parked on the NASA ramp in front of the XB-70.