The M2-F3 Lifting Body is seen here on the lakebed next to the NASA Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.
The DARPA/U.S. Air Force X-45A Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) system demonstration program completed the first phase of demonstrations, known…
Model airplane builders James B. Newman and Robert L. McDonald prepare for a flight with models of the M2-F2 and…
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.
