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Canopy Change Seen on X-1A
Canopy Change Seen on X-1A

The Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1A (48-1384) was photographed in July 1955 sitting on Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force…

Fleet Aircraft
Fleet Aircraft

In the center foreground of this 1953 hangar photo is the YF-84A (NACA 134/Air Force 45-59490) used for vortex generator…

Fleet Aircraft
Fleet Aircraft

Four different versions of the F-16 were used by Dryden in the 1990s.

Dryden People
Dryden People

As a very young undergraduate student at Johns Hopkins University Hugh L. Dryden proved himself especially gifted in physics and…

Fleet Aircraft
Fleet Aircraft

The aircraft in this 1953 photo of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) hangar at South Base of Edwards…

Dryden People
Dryden People

NACA pilot John Griffith hands his flight gear to Dick Payne as crew members Ed Edwards and Clyde Bailey look…

X-1A Ejection Seat Test Setup
X-1A Ejection Seat Test Setup

Bell X-1A ejection seat test setup.

F-15B Supersonic Natural Laminar Flow Experiment
F-15B Supersonic Natural Laminar Flow Experiment

The primary goal of the SuperSonic Natural Laminar Flow experiment was to investigate the extent and stability of natural laminar…

F-15B Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration
F-15B Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration

In a role-reversal, Northrop Grumman Corp.’s modified F-5E Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration (SSBD) aircraft flies off the wing of NASA’s…