
The right vertical stabilizer of NASA’s F/A-18 Systems Research Aircraft now sports a green fiberglass end cap.

A NASA remote-controlled model motorized sailplane lies over Rogers Dry Lake to test the theory that catching heat thermals extends…

NASA pilot Ed Lewis (rear) briefs NASA test pilot Dick Ewers on the flight instruments of NASA’s YO-3A acoustics research…

NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., used this modified F/A-18 aircraft, also known as the Systems Research Aircraft (SRA),…

With its sensor booms projecting ahead of the wing, the Pathfinder-Plus solar wing soared under a blue sky on its…

This look-down view of the X-29 research aircraft in flight over California’s Mojave Desert shows its striking and unique forward…

A NASA remote-controlled model motorized sailplane lies over Rogers Dry Lake to test the theory that catching heat thermals extends…

A NASA model motorized sailplane catches a thermal during one of 17 flights to demonstrate that updrafts can extend flight…

NASA Dryden Flight Research Center’s F-18 Systems Research Aircraft (SRA) in flight.