
David A. Wright was a research pilot and directorate chief in the Flight Operations Directorate at NASA’s Dryden (now Armstrong)…

This look-down view of the X-36 Tailless Fighter Agility Research Aircraft on the ramp at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center,…

This NASA Dryden Flight Research Center photograph taken in 1975 shows the General Dynamic Integrated Propulsion Control System (IPCS)/F-111E Aardvark…

In March 1945 Joseph A. Walker joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics’ Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory, Cleveland, OH, (later…

The No. 2 X-29 technology demonstrator aircraft is shown as it lifts off from the runway at Edwards Air Force…

The Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1-2 aircraft on the ramp at NACA High Speed Flight Research Station located on the South…

The NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station aircraft at South Base. Clockwise from far left: D-558-II, XF-92A, X-5, X-1, X-4, and…

These people and this equipment supported the flight of the NACA D-558-2 Skyrocket at the High-Speed Flight Station at South…

Scott Crossfield talks to newsmen in front of NACA South Base hangar after his first flight to Mach 2 in…

In 1954 this photo of two swept wing airplanes was taken on the ramp of the NACA High-Speed Flight Research…