Miscellaneous: EC03-0163-16 The mural was created...
EC03-0163-16 The mural was created to celebrate the achievements of Wilbur and Orville Wright and to commemorate a century of powered flight. Central to the composition is the 1903 Wright Flyer. ''On Dec. 17, 1... More
NACA Aircraft on Lakebed-X-3, D-558-1, XF4D, D-558-2
A group picture of Douglas Airplanes, taken for a photographic promotion in 1954, at what is now known as the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, California. The photo includes the X-3 (in ... More
Dr. Hugh L. Dryden seated at desk
As a very young undergraduate Student at Johns Hopkins University Hugh L. Dryden proved himself especially gifted in physics and mathematics and began advanced study with Professor Joseph Ames, an important fig... More
NACA Aircraft in hangar 1953 - L-R: Three D-558-2s, D-558-1, B-47, win...
The aircraft in this 1953 photo of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) hangar at South Base of Edwards Air Force Base showed the wide range of research activities being undertaken. On the lef... More
At NASA Dryden, Aerospace industry representatives view actual and moc...
Aerospace industry representatives view actual and mock-up versions of 'X-Planes' intended to enhance access to space during a technical exposition on June 22, 2000 at Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Ca... More
NASA X-15, Dryden history gallery
E-USAF-X-15 On 15 November 1967, Ship #3 was launched over Delamar Lake, Nevada with Maj. Michael J. Adams at the controls. The vehicle soon reached a speed of Mach 5.2, and a peak altitude of 266,000 feet. Dur... More
NASA U-2, Dryden history gallery
E-5442 After Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union during a CIA spy flight on 1 May 1960 NASA issued a press release with a cover story about a U-2 conducting weather research that may have s... More
NASA X-15, Dryden history gallery
EC05-0177-33Four of the five surviving X-15 pilots were on hand when astronaut wings were presented to the three NASA pilots who flew the X-15 rocket plane into space in the 1960s, Bill Dana, Joe Walker decease... More
NASA XB-70 Valkyrie, Dryden history gallery
EC68-2101 The figure standing on the ramp provides a relative size comparison with the XB-70A aircraft. Six large nozzles for the General Electric engines are shown between and below the two large vertical tail... More
NASA DFRC Mate-Demate Device (MDD) full side view looking northwest, s...
The original database describes this as: Location: Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California Photographer: Tom Tschida Photographs, Textual Material and a Video Recording Relating to t... More
B-52 Launch Aircraft in Flight. Public domain image of NASA aircraft.
NASA's venerable B-52 mothership is seen here photographed from a KC-135 Tanker aircraft. The X-43 adapter is visible attached to the right wing. The B-52, used for launching experimental aircraft and for other... More
NASA M2-F2, Dryden history gallery
EC66-1567 The M2-F2 Lifting Body returns from a research flight at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, with an F-104 flying chase. The success of Dryden's M2-F1 program led to NASA's de... More
X-38 Ship #2 in Free Flight after Release from B-52 Mothership
The X-38 research vehicle drops away from NASA's B-52 mothership immediately after being released from the B-52's wing pylon. More than 30 years earlier, this same B-52 launched the original lifting-body vehicl... More
NASA HL-10, Dryden history gallery
ECN-2353The wingless, lifting body aircraft sitting on Rogers Dry Lake at what is now NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, from left to right are the X-24A, M2-F3 and the HL-10. The liftin... More
HL-10 Landing with F-104 Chase Aircraft
ECN-2367 HL-10 touches down on its main landing gear, while the pilot was holding the nose up to slow the vehicle. The F-104 in the background was used as a chase plane. Its pilot would give the HL-10's pilot c... More
NASA F5D-1 Skylancer, Dryden history gallery
EC71-02569F5D Skylancer in flight copy negative February 1971 NASA Photo / NASA NASA Identifier: 362787main_EC71-02569
View from Helicopter of STS-128 Discovery in Mate-Demate Device (MDD)
The original database describes this as: Location: Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California Photographs, Textual Material and a Video Recording Relating to the Space Shuttle Mate-Demat... More
Night time shots of Mate-Demate Device (MDD) with all the lights on (e...
The original database describes this as: Location: Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California Photographs, Textual Material and a Video Recording Relating to the Space Shuttle Mate-Demat... More
Dawn Shots of shuttle and 747 in Mate-Demate Device (MDD)
The original database describes this as: Location: Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California Photographs, Textual Material and a Video Recording Relating to the Space Shuttle Mate-Demat... More
Shuttle and 747 in the Mate-Demate Device (MDD)
The original database describes this as: Location: Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California Photographs, Textual Material and a Video Recording Relating to the Space Shuttle Mate-Demat... More
Shuttle and 747 in the Mate-Demate Device (MDD)
The original database describes this as: Location: Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California Photographs, Textual Material and a Video Recording Relating to the Space Shuttle Mate-Demat... More
Front detail view of STS-125 Atlantis in Mate-Demate Device (MDD) over...
The original database describes this as: Location: Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California Photographs, Textual Material and a Video Recording Relating to the Space Shuttle Mate-Demat... More
NASA DFRC Mate-Demate Device (MDD) full front view looking northeast
The original database describes this as: Location: Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California Photographer: Tom Tschida Photographs, Textual Material and a Video Recording Relating to t... More
The orbiter Columbia sits on Rogers Drylake Runway 23 at NASA's Dryden...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Edwards Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to... More
NASA F-14 Tomcat, Dryden history gallery
ECN-20325 This photo shows NASA's F-14 (NASA tail number 991; Navy serial number 157991) flying over Rogers Dry Lake, accompanied by a Navy F-14. NASA 991 was the research aircraft in a joint NASA/Navy program ... More
X-33 Advanced Technology Demonstrator
EC99-44921-1 An artist's conception of the half scale X-33 demonstrator flying over the southwestern desert. The vehicle was a wedge-shaped lifting body, with two vertical fins and a pair of stub wings. On the ... More
Altus II aircraft flying over southern California desert
The San Gabriel range is visible as the the remotely piloted Altus II flies over Southern California's high desert. The Altus II was flown as a performance and propulsion testbed for future high-altitude scienc... More
Miscellaneous: EC03-0163-15 Artists Bob and Louise...
EC03-0163-15 Artists Bob and Louise McCall in their Paradise Valley, Arizona studio, in front of ''Celebrating One Hundred Years of Powered Flight 1903-2003.'' The mural was created to celebrate the achievement... More
A convoy of specialized support vehicles follow the Space Shuttle Ende...
A convoy of specialized support vehicles follow the Space Shuttle Endeavour as it is towed up a taxiway at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base, California, after landing on May 1, 200... More
LASRE pod being mated to SR-71. Public domain image of NASA aircraft.
The Linear Aerospike SR-71 Experiment is mounted on a NASA SR-71 aircraft Aug. 26, at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, in preparation for the experiment's first flight, which took pl... More
NASA DC-8, Dryden history gallery
Alternative Jet Fuels Put to the Test at NASA Dryden › Read Feature Alternatives Aviation Fuels Experiment project scientist Bruce Anderson of NASA's Langley Research Center repairs a malfunctioning instrument ... More
Additional overhead view of the Sheet Metal Shop.
Additional overhead view of the Sheet Metal Shop. NASA Identifier: 290160main_fabshop004_full
NASA Orion Crew Module, Dryden history gallery
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center technicians accompany NASA's first Orion full-scale abort flight test crew module as it heads to it's new home. April 1, 2008 NASA / Tony Landis ED08-0085-111 NASA Identifier:... More
F-15B #837 Final Flight. NASA public domain image colelction.
Read News Release 09-04 With afterburners roaring, NASA's highly modified NF-15B Eagle research aircraft lifts off the Edwards Air Force Base runway on its final flight. The first two-seat F-15 built by McDonne... More
The X-43A hypersonic research aircraft and its modified Pegasus booste...
The first of three X-43A hypersonic research aircraft and its modified Pegasus booster rocket recently underwent combined systems testing while mounted to NASA's NB-52B carrier aircraft at the Dryden Flight Res... More
LSRA in flight, NASA history collection
A NASA CV-990, modified as a Landing Systems Research Aircraft (LSRA), in flight over NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, for a test of the space shuttle landing gear system. The space sh... More
Pathfinder aircraft taking off - setting new solar powered altitude re...
The Pathfinder solar-powered remotely piloted aircraft climbs to a record-setting altitude of 50,567 feet during a flight Sept. 11, 1995, at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. The flight... More
Pegasus Rocket Wing and PHYSX Glove Being Prepared for Stress Loads Te...
A technician adjusts the Pegasus Hypersonic Experiment (PHYSX) Project's Pegasus rocket wing with attached PHYSX glove before a loads-test at Scaled Composites, Inc., in Mojave, California, in January 1997. For... More
Hyper-X Vehicle Model - Top Rear View
This aft-quarter model view of NASA's X-43A "Hyper-X" or Hypersonic Experimental Vehicle shows its sleek, geometric design. The X-43A was developed to flight test a dual-mode ramjet/scramjet propulsion system a... More
Enterprise - Free Flight after Separation from 747
The Space Shuttle prototype Enterprise flies free after being released from NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) during one of five free flights carried out at the Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, C... More
F-18 SRA during flight. Public domain image of NASA aircraft.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Systems Research Aircraft (SRA), a highly modified F-18 jet fighter, is seen here during a recent research flight. The former Navy aircraft is being flown by ... More
F-18 HARV smoke and tuft vortex flow visualization along leading edge ...
Flow visualization smoke marks vortex flows along the leading edge extension on an F/A-18 flown by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, in its High Alpha Research Vehicle (HARV) program. T... More
X-36 in Flight over Mojave Desert - Public domain map
28-percent scale representation of a theoretical advanced fighter aircraft. The Boeing Phantom Works (formerly McDonnell Douglas) in St. Louis, Missouri, built two of the vehicles in a cooperative agreement wit... More
F-18 HARV in flight refueling with KC-135 tanker
A thrust vectoring system can be seen mounted on the aft end of this NASA F-18 research aircraft at the Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, during an inflight refueling stop with a KC-135A (Seri... More
Orion Preps for Shipment to WSMR
ED09-0221-019 Technicians work to convert the Orion crew module integration stand into a transportation fixture for airlift of the module to the White Sands Missile Range for the Launch Abort System Pad Abort 1... More
Hyper-X Vehicle Model - Side View
A side-view of an early desk-top model of NASA's X-43A "Hyper-X," or Hypersonic Experimental Vehicle, which has been developed to flight test a dual-mode ramjet/scramjet propulsion system at speeds from Mach 7 ... More
X-36 Being Prepared on Lakebed for First Flight
Lit by the rays of the morning sunrise on Rogers Dry Lake, adjacent to NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, a technician prepares the remotely-piloted X-36 Tailless Fighter Agility Researc... More
NASA Active Aeroelastic Wing (AAW), Dryden history gallery
EC03-0174-1 The Active Aeroelastic Wing F-18 research aircraft (AAW) is shadowed by another F-18 in formation during a flyover of the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. Read Project Description June 25, 2003 N... More
NASA APV-3 NUAVT, Dryden history gallery
EC04-0347-06 Two identical RnR Products APV-3 aircraft validated cooperative flight control software in the Networked UAV Teaming Experiment at NASA Dryden in early 2005. November 20, 2004 NASA Photo / Tom Tsch... More
NASA L-1011 Tristar, Dryden history gallery
EC97-44077-3 Bearing the logos of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Orbital Sciences Corporation, Orbital's L-1011 Tristar lifts off the Meadows Field Runway at Bakersfield, California, on i... More
NASA Flight Loads Laboratory, Dryden history gallery
EC97-44165-69 Flight Loads Laboratory - Aerial view 16 Jul 1997 NASA Photo / & Flight Loads Lab Description NASA Identifier: 311386main_EC97-44165-69
F-18 Systems Research Aircraft. NASA public domain image colelction.
ED08-0252-14 NASA is partnering with Gulfstream on the External Vision System project to demonstrate the use of an HD video system on the F-18B Systems Research Aircraft. September 30, 2008 NASA Photo / Tony La... More
NASA SOFIA, Dryden history gallery
ED10-0083-31 NASA's SOFIA aircraft project manager John Carter is interviewed by Molly Hermann, Rob Lyall and Jason Boswell for a planned two-hour television documentary on Earth, airborne and space telescopes ... More
NASA Pathfinder, Dryden history gallery
EC97-44288-1 Pathfinder in flight over Hawaii Read Project Description October 1997 NASA Photo / Carla Thomas NASA Identifier: 326814main_EC97-44287-1
NASA Dryden People, Dryden history gallery
ED08-0253-01Mark C. Dickers on September 30, 2008 NASA Photo / Tony Landis Dryden People Description NASA Identifier: 331448main_ED08-0253-01
NASA SR-71 Blackbird, Dryden history gallery
EC03-0082-1 NASA's SR-71B and F-18 HARV aircraft left Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., on March 24, 2003. March 24, 2003 NASA Photo / Tony Landis NASA Identifier: 335400main_EC03-0082-1
NASA X-2, Dryden history gallery
ED06-0174-1 Bell Aircraft copy photo of X-2 Number 1 (#674) landing with skids deployedX-2 Number 1 made its first unpowered glide flight on Aug. 5, 1954, and made a total of 17 (4 glide and 13 powered) flights... More
NASA XF-92A, Dryden history gallery
E-860 This NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station photograph of the XF-92A was taken at the South Base of Edwards Air Force Base. The photograph shows the pitot-static probe, used to measure airspeed, Mach num... More
X-3, NASA history collection. Public domain image of NASA aircraft.
E-17348 This in-flight NACA High-Speed Flight Station photograph of the X-3 Stiletto illustrates the aircraft's long slender fuselage and the small wings. The X-3 Stiletto was a single-place jet-powered researc... More
Aeronautical Research Engineer Milt Thompson computing data
Milton O. Thompson was hired as an engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics' High-Speed Flight Station (later renamed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Dryden Flight Researc... More
NASA Aircraft Fleet 1960s, Dryden history gallery
ECN-2359 The wingless, lifting body aircraft sitting on Rogers Dry Lake at what is now NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, from left to right are the X-24A, M2-F3 and the HL-10. The lifti... More
R4D Parked on Ramp, NASA history collection
This Photograph taken in 1956 shows the first of three R4D Skytrain aircraft on the ramp behind the NACA High-Speed Flight Station. NACA stood for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which evolved ... More
NASA A-5A Vigilante, Dryden history gallery
ECN-231 A North American Aviation A-5A Vigilante (Navy serial number 147858/NASA tail number 858) arrived from the Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, MD, on December 19, 1962, at the NASA Flight Research Ce... More
NASA Unswept Fuselage Study, Dryden history gallery
ECN-2119 Aero Commander in flight - Upswept fuselage study 1965 NASA Photo NASA Identifier: 300214main_ECN-2119
Pilot Neil Armstrong in the X-15 #1 cockpit
NASA pilot Neil Armstrong is seen here in the cockpit of the X-15 ship #1 (56-6670) after a research flight. A U.S. Navy pilot in the Korean War who flew 78 combat missions in F9F-2 jet fighters and who was awa... More
Three Lifting Bodies on Lakebed (X-24A, M2-F3, HL-10)
The wingless, lifting body aircraft sitting on Rogers Dry Lake at what is now NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, from left to right are the X-24A, M2-F3 and the HL-10.The lifting body ai... More
HL-10 in flight after launch. Public domain image of NASA aircraft.
The HL-10 Lifting Body is seen here in powered flight shortly after launch from the B-52 mothership. When HL-10 powered flights began on October 23, 1968, the vehicle used the same basic XLR-11 rocket engine th... More
M2-F3 In-flight Launch from B-52
This photo shows the M2-F3 Lifting Body being launched from NASA's B-52 mothership at the NASA Flight Research Center (FRC--now the Dryden Flight Research Center), Edwards, California. A fleet of lifting bodies... More
HL-10 Subsonic Control Surface Configuration
ECN-1463 HL-10 is shown on the lakebed with its subsonic control surface configuration. The unusual shapes of the lifting bodies, as well as the demands of flying a re-entry shape to comparative low-speed landi... More
HL-10 landing on lakebed with F-104 chase aircraft
In this photo, the HL-10 has touched down on its main landing gear, while the pilot was holding the nose up to slow the vehicle. The F-104 in the background was used as a chase plane. Its pilot would give the H... More
NASA X-24, Dryden history gallery
ECN-2359 The wingless, lifting body aircraft sitting on Rogers Dry Lake at what is now NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, from left to right are the X-24A, M2-F3 and the HL-10. The lifti... More
F-8 DFBW in flight. Public domain image of NASA aircraft.
F-8 Digital Fly-By-Wire aircraft in flight. The computer-controlled flight systems pioneered by the F-8 DFBW created a revolution in aircraft design. The F-117A, X-29, X-31, and many other aircraft have relied ... More
AS17-154-23625 - Apollo 17 - Apollo 17, Dryden, Walker, Apollo
The original database describes this as: Description: View of Moon,Dryden,Walker, Apollo. Image taken during the Apollo 17 mission on Revolution 2. Original film magazine was labeled QQ. Film type was 2485 Ver... More
Shuttle and 747 in the Mate-Demate Device (MDD)
The original database describes this as: Location: Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California Photographs, Textual Material and a Video Recording Relating to the Space Shuttle Mate-Demat... More
Photos of the model of the Mate-Demate Device (MDD), shuttle and 747
The original database describes this as: Location: Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California Photographs, Textual Material and a Video Recording Relating to the Space Shuttle Mate-Demat... More
Photos of the model of the Mate-Demate Device (MDD), shuttle and 747
The original database describes this as: Location: Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California Photographs, Textual Material and a Video Recording Relating to the Space Shuttle Mate-Demat... More
NASA DFRC Mate-Demate Device (MDD) full side view looking north, showi...
The original database describes this as: Location: Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California Photographer: Tom Tschida Photographs, Textual Material and a Video Recording Relating to t... More
Dusk and dawn shots of the shuttle and 747 in Mate-Demate Device (MDD)
The original database describes this as: Location: Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California Photographs, Textual Material and a Video Recording Relating to the Space Shuttle Mate-Demat... More
Photos of the model of the Mate-Demate Device (MDD), shuttle and 747
The original database describes this as: Location: Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California Photographs, Textual Material and a Video Recording Relating to the Space Shuttle Mate-Demat... More
NASA Oblique Wing Research Aircraft, Dryden history gallery
E76-30764 This 1976 photograph of the Oblique Wing Research Aircraft was taken in front of the NASA Flight Research Center hangar, located at Edwards Air Force Base, California. In the photograph the noseboom, ... More
SPC Shirley A. Dryden lends a hand in moving the Army's collection as ...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Washington State: District Of Columbia (DC) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Audrey L. Green Release Status: Relea... More
X-29 on Runway, NASA history collection
This photo shows the No. 2 X-29 technology demonstrator aircraft as it lifts off from the runway at Edwards Air Force base on a 1989 test flight. The X-29 was flown by NASA's Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facilit... More
STS-40 Landing at Edwards. Public domain image of NASA aircraft.
Space Shuttle Columbia nears its touchdown on Runway 22 at Edwards, California, at 8:39 a.m., 14 June 1991, as the STS-40 life sciences mission comes to an end at NASA's Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility (la... More
SR-71B - in Flight with F-18 Chase Aircraft - View from Air Force Tank...
NASA 831, an SR-71B operated by the Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, cruises over the Mojave Desert with an F/A-18 Hornet flying safety chase. They were photographed on a 1996 mission from an... More
X-38 on B-52 Wing Pylon - View from Observation Window
A unique, close-up view of the X-38 under the wing of NASA's B-52 mothership prior to launch of the lifting-body research vehicle. The photo was taken from the observation window of the B-52 bomber as it banked... More
Altus II high altitude science aircraft decending toward U.S. Navy's P...
Altus II descends towards the Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii. The Altus II was flown as a performance and propulsion testbed for future high-altitude science platform aircraft under NASA's... More
X-38: Artist Concept of Re-Entering Earth's Atmosphere
This is an artist's depiction of NASA's proposed Crew Return Vehicle (CRV) re-entering the earth's atmosphere. A team of NASA researchers began free flight tests of the X-38, a technology demonstrator for the C... More
Altus aircraft on runway, NASA history collection
The remotely piloted Altus aircraft flew several developmental test flights from Rogers Dry Lake adjacent to NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., in 1996. The Altus--the word is Latin for "hig... More
Tu-144LL SST Flying Laboratory in Flight
pressures, angle of attack, and sideslip angles with increased accuracy. Two NASA pilots, Robert Rivers of Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, and Gordon Fullerton from Dryden Flight Research Center, Ed... More
Perseus B Taxi Tests in Preparation for a New Series of Flight Tests
The Perseus B remotely piloted aircraft on the runway at Edwards Air Force Base, California at the conclusion of a development flight at NASA's Dryden flight Research Center. The Perseus B is the latest of thre... More
STS106-726-003 - STS-106 - Earth observation views taken from Atlantis...
The original finding aid described this as: Description: Earth observation views taken from Atlantis, Orbital Vehicle (OV) 104, during the STS-106 mission. Subject Terms: STS-106 ATLANTIS (ORBITER) EARTH OBSE... More
Ignition of the Pegasus rocket moments after release from the B-52 sig...
The first X-43A hypersonic research aircraft and its modified Pegasus booster rocket were carried aloft by NASA's NB-52B carrier aircraft from Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., on... More
LASRE pod being mated to SR-71. Public domain image of NASA aircraft.
These workers are performing a fit-check of the Linear Aerospike SR-71 Experiment (LASRE) on the back of a NASA Dryden Flight Research Center SR-71. The fit-check occurred Feb. 15, 1996, at Lockheed Martin Skun... More
Linear Aerospike SR-71 Experiment (LASRE) first flight takeoff
A NASA SR-71 takes off Oct. 31, making its first flight as part of the NASA/Rocketdyne/Lockheed Martin Linear Aerospike SR-71 Experiment (LASRE) at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. The... More
NASA 12/3/07, Dryden history gallery
The above-the-fuselage engine and V-tail distinguish one of NASA's two Global Hawk unmanned aircraft parked on the ramp at the Dryden Flight Research Center. December 3, 2007 NASA Photo / Tony Landis ED07-0244-... More
With the modified F/A-18 showcased behind him, Kevin Petersen, directo...
With the modified F/A-18 showcased behind him, Kevin Petersen, director of NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, addressed the audience attending the rollout ceremonies for the Active Aeroelastic Wing flight rese... More
Western Aeronautical Test Range (WATR) mission control room monitors
This photo shows monitors in a Dryden Flight Research Center mission control room of the Western Aeronautical Test Range (WATR). All aspects of a research mission are monitored from one of two of these control ... More
DC-8 Airborne Laboratory in flight over NASA Dryden center with SCA 74...
The DC-8 aircraft is seen making a banking turn high above the NASA Dryden ramp. This view of the DC-8's left side reveals some of the modifications necessary for particular on-board experiments. To the right o... More
With the modified F/A-18 showcased behind him, Kevin Petersen, directo...
With the modified F/A-18 showcased behind him, Kevin Petersen, director of NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, addressed the audience attending the rollout ceremonies for the Active Aeroelastic Wing flight rese... More
F-16XL ship #1 in flight over desert
NASA's single-seat F-16XL on a research flight over the desert near the Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. The aircraft was most recently used in the Cranked-Arrow Wing Aerodynamics Project (CA... More