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Ground Vibration Tests for Quiet Spike
Ground Vibration Tests for Quiet Spike

NASA Dryden’s F-15B testbed aircraft with the Gulfstream Quiet Spike sonic boom mitigator attached undergoes ground vibration testing in preparation…

Landing after First Evaluation Flight
Landing after First Evaluation Flight

Approaching the runway after the first evaluation flight of the Quiet Spike project, NASA’s F-15B testbed aircraft cruised over Roger’s…

Fleet Aircraft
Fleet Aircraft

Four different versions of the F-16 were used by Dryden in the 1990s.

Dryden People
Dryden People

Robert Dale Reed, aerospace engineer, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center

Front Instrument Panel for X-24A Lifting Body
Front Instrument Panel for X-24A Lifting Body

Front instrument panel in the cockpit of the Martin Marietta X-24A lifting body research vehicle.

Flight Research Pilots
Flight Research Pilots

SOFIA Flight Crew

Mission Control Room of the Western Aeronautical Test Range (WATR)
Mission Control Room of the Western Aeronautical Test Range (WATR)

This photo shows monitors in a Dryden Flight Research Center mission control room of the Western Aeronautical Test Range (WATR).

F-15B Supporting the  X-33 Thermal Protection System Experiment
F-15B Supporting the X-33 Thermal Protection System Experiment

In-flight photo of the NASA F-15B used in tests of the X-33 Thermal Protection System (TPS) materials. Flying at subsonic…

F-15B Supporting the Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration
F-15B Supporting the Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration

NASA’s F-15B research testbed jet from NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center flew in the supersonic shockwave of a Northrop Grumman…

F-15B
F-15B

NASA’s two modified F-15B research aircraft joined up for a fly-over of NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, CA,…