
A quarter-scale model of the Centurion solar-powered flying wing rests on the clay of El Mirage Dry Lake in Southern…

School children from Punta Arenas, Chile, talk with Dr. David Imel, an AirSAR scientist from NASA JPL, during AirSAR 2004.

Pre-Columbian archaeological ruins are revealed through Costa Rican rain forest in this photo taken during NASA’s AirSAR 2004 campaign.

DC-8 Airborne Laboratory in flight.

DC-8 during takeoff in Kiruna, Sweden for the second flight of the SAGE III Ozone Loss and Validation Experiment (SOLVE).

The X-43A Hypersonic Experimental Vehicle, or “Hyper-X” undergoing ground testing at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, in December…

The Centurion remotely piloted flying wing during an initial series of low-altitude, battery-powered test flights in late 1998 at NASA’s…

The long, narrow wing design and lightweight structure of the Centurion remotely piloted flying wing is clearly visible in this…

The slow-flying Centurion solar-electric flying wing, one of several remotely piloted aircraft developed under NASA’s Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor…