
The Tupolev Tu-144LL supersonic flying laboratory lifts off from the Zhukovsky Air Development Center near Moscow, Russia, on a 1997…

A Tupolev Tu-144D supersonic jetliner is framed by the drooped nose and forward fuselage of the Tu-144LL supersonic flying laboratory…

The X-36 was a 28-percent sub-scale prototype of a theoretical advanced fighter aircraft designed to fly without the traditional tail…

Bruce A. Peterson standing beside the M2-F2 lifting body on Rogers Dry Lake.

The Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1E airplane being loaded under the mothership, Boeing B-29. The X planes had originally been lowered…

A head-on view of the X-31 Enhanced Fighter Maneuverability Demonstrator aircraft, accompanied by a NASA F/A-18 chase aircraft during a…

Michael R. Swann joined the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Dryden Flight Research Center on June 5, 1978, transferring from…

A roll-out of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, bomber with the Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1-2 mated and ready for flight. NACA…

David A. Wright was a research pilot and directorate chief in the Flight Operations Directorate at NASA’s Dryden (now Armstrong)…