Paul F. Bikle, Hugh L. Dryden, and Walter C. Williams stand in front of the recently repaired and modified X-15A-2…
Test pilots (left-right) Joseph A. Walker, Stanley P. Butchart, and Walter P. Jones are seen standing in front of the…
The modified F/A-18 High Alpha Research Vehicle (HARV) carries out air flow studies on a flight from the Dryden Flight…
Smoke generators and yarn tufts are used for flow visualization studies on an F/A-18 flown by NASA’s Dryden Flight Research…
The DARPA/U.S. Air Force X-45A Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) system demonstration program completed the first phase of demonstrations, known…
A glycol-based liquid, released through very small holes around the nose of an F/A-18 flown by NASA’s Dryden Flight Research…
The F/A-18 High Alpha Research Vehicle (HARV) retains the basic F/A-18 cockpit controls with some exceptions.
James W. “Smoke” Smolka, a research pilot at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, since 1985, was co-project pilot…
The Theseus prototype research aircraft waits on the lakebed before its first test flight from NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center,…
This 1989 photo shows the cockpit and instrument panel of the X-29 technology demonstrator aircraft.
