X-45A first GPS-guided weapon demonstration – weapon release.
After the M2-F1 (on the viewer’s left) proved the lifting-body concept, NASA and the Air Force began work on a…
Smoke generators in the nose of the X-29 aircraft were used to help researchers see the behavior of the air…
X-40A landing after free flight 4A.
Air Force Capt. Jerauld Gentry, shown with the M2-F2, made a total of 30 lifting-body flights in 5 different vehicles…
The General Dynamics Transonic Aircraft Technology (TACT)/F-111A Aardvark is seen In a banking turn over the California Mojave desert.
The General Dynamics Transonic Aircraft Technology (TACT)/F-111A (Serial #63-9778) banks over the Mojave Desert.
A modified General Dynamics Transonic Aircraft Technology (TACT)/F-111A Aardvaark with supercritical wings installed.
The wingless, lifting body aircraft sitting on Rogers Dry Lake at what is now NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards,…
In August 1947, Howard Clifton Lilly became the first permanently assigned NACA engineering test pilot at the National Advisory Committee…