Milt Thompson was hired as an engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics’ (NACA) High-Speed Flight Station (later renamed…
As shown in this photo of the HL-10 flight simulator, the lifting-body pilots and engineers made use of early simulators…
The HL-10, seen here parked on the ramp, was one of five lifting body designs flown at NASA’s Dryden Flight…
The HL-10, seen here parked on the ramp, was one of five lifting body designs flown at NASA’s Dryden Flight…
The Helios Prototype is an enlarged version of the Centurion flying wing, which flew a series of test flights at…
The Helios Prototype flying wing stretches almost the full length of the 300-foot-long hangar at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center,…
Helios Prototype Flying Wing performing a test flight over Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards, Calif.
Helios Prototype Flying Wing performing a low-altitude test flight over Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards, Calif.
This 1953 NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station photograph shows the wing chord extensions added to D-558-II #3. The added width…
The HL-10, seen here parked on the ramp at NASA’s Flight Research Center in 1966, had a radically different shape…