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Tight Turn over the Desert Floor by X-31
Tight Turn over the Desert Floor by X-31

One of two X-31 Enhanced Fighter Maneuverability Demonstrator aircraft, flown by an international test organization at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research…

F-18 Simulator
F-18 Simulator

Simulation Group Leader Martha Evans is at the controls of the F-18 aircraft simulator at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center,…

Flight Research Pilots
Flight Research Pilots

Edwin W. Lewis Jr. was a research pilot in the Airborne Science program, Flight Crew Branch, Dryden Flight Research Center,…

Early M2-F1 Simulator
Early M2-F1 Simulator

This early simulator of the M2-F1 lifting body was used for pilot training, to test landing techniques before the first…

Dryden People
Dryden People

David D. McBride

Flight Research Pilots
Flight Research Pilots

Air Force test pilot Robert A. Rushworth is shown in an X-15. He was selected for the X-15 program in…

Reed’s Three Proposed Lifting Body Shapes
Reed’s Three Proposed Lifting Body Shapes

Dale Reed, who inaugurated the lifting-body flight research at NASA’s Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, originally proposed that three wooden…

Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) Space Shuttle Ferry
Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) Space Shuttle Ferry

EC98-44740-3The Space Shuttle orbiter Atlantis is seen here in flight on the back of one of NASA’s Boeing 747 Shuttle…

Research Pilot Milt Thompson with M2-F1 Lifting Body
Research Pilot Milt Thompson with M2-F1 Lifting Body

NASA Flight Research Center pilot Milt Thompson, shown here on the lakebed with the M2-F1 lifting body, was an early…

Flight Research Pilots
Flight Research Pilots

Famed astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon during the historic Apollo 11 space…