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X-45 Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle – Weapon Release
X-45 Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle – Weapon Release

X-45A first GPS-guided weapon demonstration – weapon release.

Aircraft Fleet 1960s
Aircraft Fleet 1960s

After the M2-F1 (on the viewer’s left) proved the lifting-body concept, NASA and the Air Force began work on a…

X-29 Undergoes Forebody Vortex Flow Tests
X-29 Undergoes Forebody Vortex Flow Tests

Smoke generators in the nose of the X-29 aircraft were used to help researchers see the behavior of the air…

X-40A Space Maneuver Vehicle
X-40A Space Maneuver Vehicle

X-40A landing after free flight 4A.

Air Force Capt. Jerauld Gentry with M2-F2
Air Force Capt. Jerauld Gentry with M2-F2

Air Force Capt. Jerauld Gentry, shown with the M2-F2, made a total of 30 lifting-body flights in 5 different vehicles…

F-111 Transonic Aircraft Technology
F-111 Transonic Aircraft Technology

The General Dynamics Transonic Aircraft Technology (TACT)/F-111A Aardvark is seen In a banking turn over the California Mojave desert.

F-111A Transonic Aircraft Technology
F-111A Transonic Aircraft Technology

The General Dynamics Transonic Aircraft Technology (TACT)/F-111A (Serial #63-9778) banks over the Mojave Desert.

F-111A Transonic Aircraft Technology
F-111A Transonic Aircraft Technology

A modified General Dynamics Transonic Aircraft Technology (TACT)/F-111A Aardvaark with supercritical wings installed.

Aircraft Fleet 1960s
Aircraft Fleet 1960s

The wingless, lifting body aircraft sitting on Rogers Dry Lake at what is now NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards,…

Flight Research Pilots
Flight Research Pilots

In August 1947, Howard Clifton Lilly became the first permanently assigned NACA engineering test pilot at the National Advisory Committee…