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Mission Control Gold Room
Mission Control Gold Room

Mission Control Gold Room for the Western Aeronautical Test Range (WATR) located at the Dryden Flight Research Center. All aspects…

Fleet Aircraft
Fleet Aircraft

A group picture of Douglas airplanes, taken for a photographic promotion in 1954, at what is now known as the…

Fleet Aircraft
Fleet Aircraft

The HL-10 is shown next to the X-15A-2 in 1966. Both aircraft later went on to set records.

Dryden People
Dryden People

The NACA Muroc Flight Test Unit XS-1 Team members and USAF pilots.

Power Beaming Flight Demonstration
Power Beaming Flight Demonstration

With a laser beam centered on its panel of photovoltaic cells, a lightweight model plane makes the first flight of…

Power Beaming Flight Demonstration
Power Beaming Flight Demonstration

An experimental radio-controlled model aircraft is seen here in flight, powered only by light energy beamed to it by a…

Power Beaming Flight Demonstration
Power Beaming Flight Demonstration

Dryden Model Shop’s Tony Frakowiak remotely flies an experimental model aircraft being powered by a spotlight.

Power Beaming Flight Demonstration
Power Beaming Flight Demonstration

An experimental radio-controlled model aircraft casts two unique shadows as it flies inside a Dryden hangar using two spotlights as…

Flight Research Pilots
Flight Research Pilots

Astronaut Wings Presented to X-15 Pilots

X-24A, M2-F3, and the HL-10 Lifting Bodies
X-24A, M2-F3, and the HL-10 Lifting Bodies

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