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Ames Research Center researchers on the Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign project's Airspace Test...
Scott Crossfield in cockpit of the Douglas D-558-2 after first Mach 2 flight.
The Pathfinder-Plus solar aircraft flies past NASA Dryden's space shuttle hangar and shuttle carrier aircraft as it...
Melvin Gough at the Tail of a NACA Lockheed Plane
The remotely-piloted Altair unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) took to the air on its first checkout flight on June 9,...
Flight Research Inc.’s Bell OH-58C Kiowa helicopter lands on a helipad at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in...
Flight Research Inc.’s Bell OH-58C Kiowa helicopter takes off from a research helipad at NASA’s Armstrong Flight...
Flight Research Inc.'s Bell OH-58 Kiowa helicopter flies around a visual aid, known as a tetherball, created to...
Sonja Belcher and Zach Springer show some of what they would do during a flight mission at a Telemetry and Radar...
NASA’s ER-2 high-altitude aircraft prepares for a night flight with the Airborne Lunar Spectral Irradiance...
Video highlighting NASA John H. Glenn Research Center’s historical sites entitled, The Evolution of an Historic...
NASA recently completed a series of tests to reduce risks prior to Phase 2 of its Quesst mission, which will test...
A mechanic works on a General Electric I-40 turbojet at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis...
Dr. Igor Sikorsky, fourth from the left, visits the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight...
Pilot Joe Algranti climbs into the cockpit of a McDonnell F2H-2B Banshee on the tarmac at the National Advisory...
The synthetic aperture radar pod developed by JPL is slung beneath NASA's Gulfstream-III research testbed during...
An eight-foot-long pod designed to carry a synthetic aperture radar hangs from the underbelly of NASA's...
Justin Hall bonds pieces of a cradle for a rotorcraft launch system for a proposed atmospheric probe set to fly in...
Robert “Red” Jensen and Justin Hall position an atmospheric probe, its host cradle, and the rotorcraft that will air...
This is the 3rd entry of the TTBW model in 14x22. This test specifically is a lateral-directional test looking at...
NASA's Gulfstream-III research testbed lifts off from Edwards AFB on a checkout test flight with the UAV synthetic...
Justin Hall assembles parts of a cradle for a rotorcraft that will air launch a proposed atmospheric probe in summer...
NASA's Gulfstream-III research testbed lifts off the Edwards AFB runway on an envelope-expansion flight test with...
Justin Hall holds a mold of the top section of an atmospheric probe. The probe is incorporated into part of a...