
One of NASA’s Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft flies over the Dryden Flight Research Center main building at Edwards, Calif.,…

NASA’s two modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft #911 (left) and #905 (right) were nose-to-nose on the ramp at NASA…

Laurie Grindle, aerospace engineer, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center.

NASA 831, an SR-71B operated by the Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., cruises over the Mojave Desert with an…

NASA Dryden Flight Research Center pilot Tom McMurtry lands NASA’s Shuttle Carrier Aircraft with Space Shuttle Discovery attached at Rockwell…

AeroVironment’s test director Jim Daley, backup pilot Rik Meininger, stability and controls engineer Derek Lisoski, and pilot Wyatt Sadler (clockwise…

Former research pilot Gary Krier was later the Director of Flight Operations of the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards,…

The Space Shuttle prototype Enterprise flies free after being released from NASA’s 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) over Rogers Dry…

The first X-45A Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) technology demonstrator completed its sixth flight on Dec. 19, 2002, raising its…

The M2-F1 was fitted with an ejection seat before the airtow flights began.