NASA aerospace engineer Dale Reed enjoys a moment in the cockpit of the restored wingless M2-F1 in 1997.
NASA Flight Research Center Pilots, 1962.
NASA 710, a Convair 990 transport aircraft formerly used for medium-altitude atmospheric research, cruises over the Mojave Desert near NASA’s…
A Space Shuttle landing gear system is visible between the two main landing gear components on this NASA CV-990, modified…
One of the final tests of the CV-990 Landing Systems Research Aircraft (LSRA) in August, 1995 at NASA’s Dryden (now…
The NASA-Dryden Integrated Test Facility (ITF), also known as the Walter C. Williams Research Aircraft Integration Facility (RAIF), provides an…
The wingless, lifting body aircraft sitting on Rogers Dry Lake at what is now NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards,…
The M2-F1 Lifting Body is seen here being towed behind a C-47 at the Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.
In 1954 after a research flight in the Boeing B-47A Stratojet Crew Chief Wilbur McClenaghan (center) asks of the pilots…
North American F-100A (52-5778) Super Sabre on the Rogers Dry Lakebed in a 1955 photograph.