
A 1953 photo shows the X-3 (center) and, clockwise from left: X-1A (Air Force serial number 48-1384), the third D-558-I…

NASA Dryden Flight Research Center’s F/A-18 Systems Research Aircraft (SRA).

D-558-II #145 with external stores.

NASA Dryden Flight Research Center’s F/A-18 Systems Research Aircraft (SRA).

AeroVironment crew chief Mark Shipley applied sealing tape to a wing joint on Pathfinder-Plus before it was hoisted into place…

A Vought F-8A Crusader was selected by NASA as the testbed aircraft (designated TF-8A) to install an experimental Supercritical Wing…

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…