
The Helios Prototype flying wing stretches almost the full length of the 300-foot-long hangar at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center,…

Helios Prototype Flying Wing performing a test flight over Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards, Calif.

Helios Prototype Flying Wing performing a low-altitude test flight over Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards, Calif.

This 1953 NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station photograph shows the wing chord extensions added to D-558-II #3. The added width…

The HL-10, seen here parked on the ramp at NASA’s Flight Research Center in 1966, had a radically different shape…

The HL-10 Lifting Body is seen here parked on Rogers Dry Lake, the unique location where it landed after research…

The HL-10 Lifting Body completes its first research flight with a landing on Rogers Dry Lake. Due to control problems,…

Not every moment of a test pilot’s day is serious business. In a moment of levity, NASA pilots Bill Dana…

Bill Dana was Chief Engineer at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, from 1993 until 1998, when he retired…