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Global Hawk: Past and Present Paint Schemes
Global Hawk: Past and Present Paint Schemes

NASA’s two Global Hawks, one sporting a NASA paint scheme, the other in its prior Air Force livery, were shown…

A-5A Vigilante
A-5A Vigilante

ET64-0319 A North American Aviation A-5A Vigilante (Navy serial number 147858/NASA tail number 858) arrived from the Naval Air Test…

F-16XL Ship #2 Supersonic Laminar Flow Control experiment
F-16XL Ship #2 Supersonic Laminar Flow Control experiment

NASA Dryden Flight Research Center’s modified F-16XL conducted testing on laminar flow during an Oct. 1996 research mission over the…

F-16XL Ship #2 Supersonic Laminar Flow Control experiment
F-16XL Ship #2 Supersonic Laminar Flow Control experiment

The laminar flow control panel in the left wing (dark area, forward center) of NASA’s F-16XL is highly visible in…

F-16XL Ship #2 Supersonic Laminar Flow Control experiment
F-16XL Ship #2 Supersonic Laminar Flow Control experiment

A laminar flow control experiment covering much of the left wing (dark area) of NASA’s F-16XL “848” is seen clearly…

F-16XL Ship #2 Supersonic Laminar Flow Control experiment
F-16XL Ship #2 Supersonic Laminar Flow Control experiment

The perforated titanium overlay mounted on the upper surface of the left wing is clearly evident on this view of…

F-16XL Ship #2 Supersonic Laminar Flow Control experiment
F-16XL Ship #2 Supersonic Laminar Flow Control experiment

NASA’s two-seat F-16XL research aircraft streaks over the California desert near the Dryden Flight Research Center, during its final flight…

AirSAR Pilots Explain DC-8 Mission to Chilean Students
AirSAR Pilots Explain DC-8 Mission to Chilean Students

Pilot Bill Brockett (left) and Chilean Air Force Captain Saez with school children in the cockpit of NASA Dryden’s DC-8…

AirSAR Team Studies Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica
AirSAR Team Studies Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica

The Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica viewed from NASA’s DC-8 aircraft during the AirSAR 2004 campaign.