The Apollo hardware jammed into the F-8C. The computer is partially visible in the avionics bay at the top of…
The F-8 Digital Fly-By-Wire aircraft in flight. The computer-controlled flight systems pioneered by the F-8 DFBW created a revolution in…
The No. 1 X-29 advanced technology demonstrator aircraft banks over desert terrain near NASA’s Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA.
X-45A first GPS-guided weapon demonstration – weapon release.
This 1954 photograph shows a Douglas D-558-II under the P2B-1S (Navy designation for a B-29) launch aircraft. The P2B-1S has…
D-558-II Skyrocket take off using JATO assist.
From December 10, 1966, until his retirement on February 27, 1976, Stan Butchart served as Chief (later, Director) of Flight…
The F/A-18 simulator at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.
A group picture of Douglas Airplanes, taken for a photographic promotion in 1954, at what is now known as the…
Rogers Smith, a NASA research pilot, is seen here at the cockpit of the X-29 forward-swept-wing technology demonstrator at NASA’s…
