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X-29 Ship #2 Transported to Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility
X-29 Ship #2 Transported to Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility

EC88-221-11In a stark juxtaposition of nature and technology, the second X-29 forward-swept-wing research aircraft is shown here passing by one…

F-15A Flight Research Facility
F-15A Flight Research Facility

An in-flight photo of the NASA F-15A with a 10-degree cone to collect aerodynamic information to calibrate data from wind…

Flow Visualization Facility
Flow Visualization Facility

This image shows a plastic 1/48-scale model of an F/A-18 aircraft inside the “Water Tunnel” more formally known as the…

X-1 Canopy Design
X-1 Canopy Design

This photo appears to depict the design of the X-1E canopy.

Flight Research Pilots
Flight Research Pilots

Former NACA test pilot Scott Crossfield at the 1998 “Men of Mach 2” symposium, an event celebrating his work in…

Tufts Used for Air-Flow Analysis
Tufts Used for Air-Flow Analysis

The photograph shows that the right delta wing and aft fuselage of the XF-92A has some tufts attached for air-flow…

X-1
X-1

Technicians servicing the Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1 in preparation for a flight. The X-1 is mated with the Boeing B-29.…

SRA Evaluates Human Factors Technology
SRA Evaluates Human Factors Technology

NASA Dryden Flight Research Center’s F/A-18B Systems Research Aircraft on an External Vision System project flight.

X-1
X-1

XS-1 on the ramp with the B-29 mothership in 1949. This is the second XS-1 built; it later was converted…