
Bell X-1B, fitted with a reaction control system, posed on the lakebed.

A large crane gingerly lowers an F/A-18 Hornet aircraft onto a 28-foot-tall pedestal in front of the municipal baseball stadium…

Two NASA F/A-18s flown by NASA Dryden research pilots Jim Smolka and Nils Larson cruise over the Texas landscape after…

An F/A-18 aircraft formerly flown by NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., is lifted by crane toward what has…

As news media and city officials watch from the balcony of the city baseball stadium in Lancaster, Calif., a crane…

F/A-18B aircraft in flight, used as a safety chase and support aircraft on Dryden research missions.

The Bell Aircraft Company X-2 (46-674) drops away from its Boeing B-50 mothership.

The NACA Muroc Contingent in October 1947 in front of the Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1-2 and Boeing B-29 launch aircraft.

Jim Barrilleaux was the assistant chief pilot for ER-2s in the Flight Crew Branch of NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center,…