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Tu-144LL Supersonic Transport
Tu-144LL Supersonic Transport

The Tupolev Tu-144LL supersonic flying laboratory lifts off from the Zhukovsky Air Development Center near Moscow, Russia, on a 1997…

Tu-144LL Supersonic Transport
Tu-144LL Supersonic Transport

A Tupolev Tu-144D supersonic jetliner is framed by the drooped nose and forward fuselage of the Tu-144LL supersonic flying laboratory…

X-36 Cockpit
X-36 Cockpit

The X-36 was a 28-percent sub-scale prototype of a theoretical advanced fighter aircraft designed to fly without the traditional tail…

NASA Pilot Bruce Peterson and the M2-F2 Lifting Body
NASA Pilot Bruce Peterson and the M2-F2 Lifting Body

Bruce A. Peterson standing beside the M2-F2 lifting body on Rogers Dry Lake.

X-1E
X-1E

The Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1E airplane being loaded under the mothership, Boeing B-29. The X planes had originally been lowered…

Aircraft Fleet 1990s
Aircraft Fleet 1990s

A head-on view of the X-31 Enhanced Fighter Maneuverability Demonstrator aircraft, accompanied by a NASA F/A-18 chase aircraft during a…

Flight Research Pilots
Flight Research Pilots

Michael R. Swann joined the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Dryden Flight Research Center on June 5, 1978, transferring from…

X-1
X-1

A roll-out of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, bomber with the Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1-2 mated and ready for flight. NACA…

Flight Research Pilots
Flight Research Pilots

David A. Wright was a research pilot and directorate chief in the Flight Operations Directorate at NASA’s Dryden (now Armstrong)…

A Closer Look at the Unusual Wing and Canard Design of the X-36
A Closer Look at the Unusual Wing and Canard Design of the X-36

This look-down view of the X-36 Tailless Fighter Agility Research Aircraft on the ramp at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center,…