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F-18 Systems Research Aircraft
F-18 Systems Research Aircraft

This bright blue-and-white twin-jet aircraft may have looked like an ordinary F/A-18 Hornet fighter, but inside it was a different…

Final Flight
Final Flight

With turbulence-measurement booms projecting ahead of the wing, Pathfinder-Plus soared aloft over Rogers Dry Lake on its final research flight…

Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Michael V. Love with X-24B
Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Michael V. Love with X-24B

Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Michael V. Love in front of the X-24B lifting body research vehicle at Edwards Air Force…

F-104N, F-15A, and YF-17 Used in Transonic Speed Study
F-104N, F-15A, and YF-17 Used in Transonic Speed Study

F-104N #812, F-15A #287, and YF-17 #569 in formation.

F/A-18 Systems Research Aircraft
F/A-18 Systems Research Aircraft

NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., used this early-model F/A-18 Hornet as a flying research platform to evaluate emerging…

X-24A, M2-F3, and the HL-10 Lifting Bodies
X-24A, M2-F3, and the HL-10 Lifting Bodies

The wingless lifting body aircraft sitting on Rogers Dry Lake at NASA’s Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, from left to…

XB-70 Cockpit
XB-70 Cockpit

ED97-44244-1The XB-70 #1 cockpit, which shows the complexity of this mid-1960s research aircraft. On the left and right sides of…

F/A-18 Systems Research Aircraft
F/A-18 Systems Research Aircraft

NASA Dryden Flight Research Center’s Systems Research Aircraft (SRA), a highly modified F/A-18 jet fighter, during a research flight.

Monitoring Pathfinder-Plus from the Ground Control Station
Monitoring Pathfinder-Plus from the Ground Control Station

AeroVironment engineers and technicians closely monitored flight data in the ground control station during the Pathfinder-Plus’ turbulence measurement flights.

X-24B Lands on Rogers Dry Lake
X-24B Lands on Rogers Dry Lake

The X-24B is seen here landing on Rogers Dry Lake, adjacent to the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.