With its nose drooped and canards extended, the Tupolev Tu-144LL supersonic flying laboratory lifts off from the Zhukovsky Air Development…
This NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station photograph is a close-up view showing an engineer calibrating the trailing edge flap of…
Ground crewmen maneuver AeroVironment’s solar-powered Helios Prototype flying wing on its ground support dolly during functional checkouts prior to its…
Ground crewmen maneuver AeroVironment’s solar-powered Helios Prototype flying wing on its ground support dolly during functional checkouts prior to its…
NACA X-1 pilot John Griffith hands his flight gear to Dick Payne as crew members Ed Edwards and Clyde Bailey…
This 1953 NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station photograph shows the Douglas D-558-2 #2 Skyrocket (NACA 144), prior to flight, being…
Milt Thompson was hired as an engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics’ (NACA) High-Speed Flight Station (later renamed…
As shown in this photo of the HL-10 flight simulator, the lifting-body pilots and engineers made use of early simulators…
The HL-10, seen here parked on the ramp, was one of five lifting body designs flown at NASA’s Dryden Flight…
