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Aircraft Fleet 1960s
Aircraft Fleet 1960s

The wingless, lifting body aircraft sitting on Rogers Dry Lake at what is now NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards,…

Tu-144LL Supersonic Transport
Tu-144LL Supersonic Transport

The Tupolev Tu-144LL SST Flying Laboratory rolls down the runway at the Zhukovsky Air Development Center near Moscow, Russia, after…

Tu-144LL Supersonic Transport
Tu-144LL Supersonic Transport

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

Tu-144LL Supersonic Transport
Tu-144LL Supersonic Transport

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

X-36 Cockpit
X-36 Cockpit

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

NASA Pilot Bruce Peterson and the M2-F2 Lifting Body
NASA Pilot Bruce Peterson and the M2-F2 Lifting Body

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

X-1E
X-1E

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

Aircraft Fleet 1990s
Aircraft Fleet 1990s

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

Flight Research Pilots
Flight Research Pilots

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