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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…

F-15A Highly Integrated Digital Electronic Control
F-15A Highly Integrated Digital Electronic Control

NASA’s highly modified F-15A (Serial #71-0287) used for digital electronic flight and engine control systems research, at sunrise on the…

F-15A Highly Integrated Digital Electronic Control
F-15A Highly Integrated Digital Electronic Control

An F-15A used by NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Facility (now Center), Edwards, Calif., for digital electronic flight and engine control…

F-15A Highly Integrated Digital Electronic Control
F-15A Highly Integrated Digital Electronic Control

NASA’s F-15A Highly Integrated Digital Electronic Control (HIDEC) aircraft nears the runway after a flight out of NASA’s Dryden Flight…