
X-45A in flight with F-18 #846 chase aircraft, during first GPS-guided weapon demonstration flight

An artist’s rendering shows advanced concepts NASA envisions for an aircraft of the future. Called the 21st Century Aerospace Vehicle,…

Pathfinder-Plus flying over the Hawaiian Islands in 1998 with Ni’ihau Island in the background.

The Theseus prototype remotely-piloted aircraft (RPA) waits on the lakebed before its first test flight from NASA’s Dryden Flight Research…

NASA research pilot Milt Thompson sits in the M2-F2 “heavyweight” lifting body research vehicle before a 1966 test flight.

X-45A in flight with F-18 #846 chase aircraft, during first GPS-guided weapon demonstration flight.

M2-F3 Lifting Body was air-dropped from NASA’s B-52 mothership at the NASA Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.

NASA’s F-14 (tail number 991, Navy serial number 157991) in 1980, soon after its arrival at the Dryden Flight Research…

NASA 834, an F-14 Navy Tomcat, was used at Dryden in 1986 and 1987 in a program known as the…

NASA 834, an F-14 Navy Tomcat, was used at Dryden in 1986 and 1987 in a program known as the…