Aircraft Fleet 1980s
The Space Shuttle Endeavour, mounted securely atop one of NASA’s modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.
The first X-45A Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) technology demonstrator completed its sixth flight on Dec. 19, 2002, raising its…
Cockpit instrument panel of the M2-F3 Lifting Body.
Einar Enevoldson was a civilian research pilot for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Hugh L. Dryden Flight Research Center,…
A head-on view of the M2-F2 lifting body mounted on the wing pylon of its B-52 mothership in 1965.
The Theseus prototype research aircraft being assembled at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., in May of 1996.
The deployable, inflatable wing technology demonstrator aircraft’s wings begin deploying following separation from its carrier aircraft during a flight experiment…
Engineers Jim Murray and Joe Pahle prepare a deployable, inflatable wing technology demonstrator experiment flown by the NASA Dryden Flight…
Wing Deployment Sequence #2: The deployable, inflatable wing technology demonstrator experiment aircraft’s wings continue deploying following separation from its carrier…
