
Three SR-71s on ramp.

NASA’s historic B-52 mothership carried the X-43A and its Pegasus booster rocket on a captive-carry flight from Edwards Air Force…

NASA’s B-52B mothership, escorted by two F-18s, made a final flyover after its last research mission that launched the X-43A…

Pathfinder aircraft being assembled – wing assembly.

SR-71 in-flight from tanker.

SR-71 in-flight from tanker.

The black X-43A rode on the front of a modified Pegasus booster rocket hung from the special pylon under the…

Pathfinder aircraft checkout flight.

As part of a combined systems test conducted by NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, NASA’s NB-52B carrier aircraft rolled down…