This early simulator of the M2-F1 lifting body was used for pilot training, to test landing techniques before the first…
David D. McBride
Air Force test pilot Robert A. Rushworth is shown in an X-15. He was selected for the X-15 program in…
Dale Reed, who inaugurated the lifting-body flight research at NASA’s Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, originally proposed that three wooden…
EC98-44740-3The Space Shuttle orbiter Atlantis is seen here in flight on the back of one of NASA’s Boeing 747 Shuttle…
NASA Flight Research Center pilot Milt Thompson, shown here on the lakebed with the M2-F1 lifting body, was an early…
Famed astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon during the historic Apollo 11 space…
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center’s Lear 24, tail number 805, in flight.
Former NASA astronaut Gordon Fullerton, seated in the cockpit of an F/A-18, was a research pilot at NASA’s Dryden Flight…
A look-down view on the Space Shuttle orbiter Atlantis piggy-backed on top of one of NASA’s Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier…
