
The Boeing 747 used for wingtip vortex research flights sits on the ramp at NASA’s Flight Research Center in Edwards,…

The Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1A (48-1384) in 1955 sitting on the Rogers Dry Lakebed at Edwards, CA.

On a nice day in November 1949 the NACA High-Speed Flight Station employees enjoy a break from a week of…

The research pilots at what in 1962 was called the Flight Research Center standing in front of the X-1E.

The F-8 Digital Fly-By-Wire (left) and F-8 Supercritical Wing in flight.

Scaled Composites’ unique tandem-wing Proteus was the testbed for a series of UAV collision-avoidance flight demonstrations.

Shot of the QF-106 aircraft in flight with the landing gear deployed.

View of the release hook on the QF-106 that allowed the pilot to release the tow rope extending from the…

This photograph shows the Air Force C-141A that was used in the Eclipse project as a tow vehicle. The project…