A Vought F-8A Crusader was selected by NASA as the testbed aircraft (designated TF-8A) to install an experimental Supercritical Wing…
The F-8A Supercritical Wing (SCW) aircraft in flight. Dr. Richard T. Whitcomb began work on the supercritical wing in the…
NASA selected a Vought F-8A Crusader as the testbed aircraft (designated TF-8A) to install an experimental Supercritical Wing (SCW) in…
A group photo of research aircraft at NASA’s Ames/Dryden Flight Research Facility in 1993 (redesignated the Dryden Flight Research Center…
NASA Ames Research Center’s T-37A #54-2737 on the Flight Research Center ramp.
This T-37 was used by the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., as a chase aircraft for many research…
The right vertical stabilizer of NASA’s F/A-18 Systems Research Aircraft now sports a green fiberglass end cap.
A NASA remote-controlled model motorized sailplane lies over Rogers Dry Lake to test the theory that catching heat thermals extends…
NASA pilot Ed Lewis (rear) briefs NASA test pilot Dick Ewers on the flight instruments of NASA’s YO-3A acoustics research…
NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., used this modified F/A-18 aircraft, also known as the Systems Research Aircraft (SRA),…