Rick Meininger, project manager for solar-powered aircraft builder AeroVironment, Inc., checks the airfoil of a battery-powered quarter-scale prototype of the…
NASA’s Super Guppy transport aircraft landed at Edwards Air Force Base, CA on July 11, 2000, to deliver the latest…
A battery-powered, quarter-scale prototype of the solar-powered, remotely piloted Centurion flying wing sits on the lakebed at California’s El Mirage…
The second X-43A hypersonic research aircraft, attached to a modified Pegasus booster rocket and followed by a chase F-18, was…
Centurion designer Bill Parks and remote pilot Wyatt Sadler go over the checklist for a test flight of the battery-powered…
Artist’s depiction of a Hyper-X research vehicle under scramjet power in free-flight following separation from its booster rocket.
With the snow-covered San Gabriel Mountains as a backdrop and a motorcycle-mounted chase crew alongside, a quarter-scale model of the…
The third X-43A hypersonic research aircraft, attached to a modified Pegasus booster rocket, was taken to launch altitude by NASA’s…
NASA’s first X-38 Advanced Technology Demonstrator for the proposed Crew Return Vehicle is transported down a road at NASA’s Dryden…
This artist’s concept depicts the Hyper-X research vehicle riding on a booster rocket prior to being launched by the Dryden…