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…
This NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station photograph shows an aft view of the XF-92A in flight above a layer of…
XS-1 on the ramp with the B-29 mothership in 1949.
The solar-electric Helios Prototype flying wing is shown over the Pacific Ocean during its first test flight on solar power…
In the center foreground of this 1953 hangar photo is the YF-84A (NACA 134/Air Force 45-59490) used for vortex generator…
Former research pilot Gary Krier was later the Director of Flight Operations of the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards,…