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F-15B Lands with Quiet Spike
F-15B Lands with Quiet Spike

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

Testing the Structural Integrity of Telescopic ‘Quiet Spike’ Sonic Boom Mitigator
Testing the Structural Integrity of Telescopic ‘Quiet Spike’ Sonic Boom Mitigator

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

Quiet Spike Installed on F-15B #836
Quiet Spike Installed on F-15B #836

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

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).