
NASA F-15B #836 landed with Quiet Spike attached. The project sought to verify the structural integrity of the multi-segmented, articulating…

Gulfstream Aerospace and NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center tested the structural integrity of a telescopic ‘Quiet Spike’ sonic boom mitigator…

Gulfstream’s Quiet Spike sonic boom mitigator being installed on NASA DFRC’s F-15B testbed aircraft. The project seeks to verify the…

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

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

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

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

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

SOFIA Flight Crew

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