Side view of a F-105B (serial #54-0102) photographed on Rogers Dry Lakebed at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. in 1959.
The M2-F1 Lifting Body is seen here testing its “instant L/D rocket” on the lakebed at NASA’s Flight Research Center,…
One of two X-31 Enhanced Fighter Maneuverability Demonstrator aircraft, flown by an international test organization at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research…
Simulation Group Leader Martha Evans is at the controls of the F-18 aircraft simulator at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center,…
Edwin W. Lewis Jr. was a research pilot in the Airborne Science program, Flight Crew Branch, Dryden Flight Research Center,…
This early simulator of the M2-F1 lifting body was used for pilot training, to test landing techniques before the first…
David D. McBride
Air Force test pilot Robert A. Rushworth is shown in an X-15. He was selected for the X-15 program in…
Dale Reed, who inaugurated the lifting-body flight research at NASA’s Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, originally proposed that three wooden…
