
Air Force test pilot Maj. Michael J. Adams stands beside X-15 ship number one.

E-23377This annotated photo shows a rear view of the X-24A lifting body research vehicle, emphasizing the control surfaces used for…

The X-31 aircraft, on a research mission from NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, is flying nearly perpendicular to…

Ed Haering, Aerospace Engineer, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center

NASA’s SOFIA flying infrared observatory banks over the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, CA upon arrival at its new…

Thomas Ambrose

Fullerton’s Last Mission Flight.

Trong Bui, NASA Dryden’s principal investigator for the aerospike rocket tests, holds the first of two 10-ft. long rockets that…

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

The NASA Dryden Flow Visualization Facility (FVF) was built in 1983 and is part of the Dryden Flight Research Center…