The NASA F/A-18 Systems Research Aircraft (SRA), specially modified to test the newest and most advanced system technologies, on its…
NASA’s F/A-18 Hornet is seen here in a banked turn over Rogers Dry Lake in the Mojave desert on an…
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center’s Systems Research Aircraft (SRA), a highly modified F/A-18 jet fighter, on an early research flight…
The vertical stabilizers in NASA’s F/A-18 Systems Research Aircraft were no longer mirror images of each other. A new “Smart…
The unusual lines of the X-36 technology demonstrator contrasted sharply with the desert floor as the remotely piloted aircraft flew…
The X-36 technology demonstrator shows off its distinctive shape as the remotely piloted aircraft flies a research mission over the…
The tailless X-36 technology demonstrator research aircraft cruised over the California desert at low altitude during a 1997 research flight.
The lack of a vertical tail on the X-36 technology demonstrator was evident as the remotely piloted aircraft flew a…
The X-36 technology demonstrator showed off its distinctive shape as the remotely piloted aircraft flew a research mission over the…
The NASA/McDonnell Douglas Corporation (MDC) X-36 Tailless Fighter Agility Research Aircraft in its hangar at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center,…