NASA Dryden flight test engineer Marta Bohn-Meyer is suited up for a research flight in the F-16XL laminar-flow control experiment…
2004 NASA Dryden Research Pilots
The Hyper III was a full-scale lifting-body remotely piloted research vehicle (RPRV) built at what was then the NASA Flight…
The Hyper III was a low-cost test vehicle for an advanced lifting-body shape. Like the earlier M2-F1, it was a…
Left to right: Richard C. Eldredge, Dale Reed, James O. Newman, and Bob McDonald with the mothership (top) and other…
Alma Warner (front) and Karen Estes use sophisticated computer software programming to calibrate a gyro package in the Avionics lab…
The M2-F1 lifting body, dubbed the “flying bathtub” by the media, was the precursor of a remarkable series of wingless…
The wingless, lifting body aircraft sitting on Rogers Dry Lake at what is now NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards,…
Proteus in flight over mountains near Las Cruces, NM.
