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Eclipse project QF-106 and C-141A takeoff on first tethered flight December 20, 1997
NASA's space shuttle Atlantis and its 747 carrier taxied on the Edwards Air Force Base flightline as the unusual...
A Xombie technology demonstrator from Masten Space Systems, Mojave, Calif., ascends from its pad at Mojave Air and...
A technician checks a 0.25-scale engine model of a Vought Corporation V-530 engine in the test section of the 10- by...
LASER Velocimetry System for Flow Measurement. Advanced Short Takeoff and Vertical Landing, ASTOVL model n the 9x15...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility, Steve Fossett, seated in the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility, Steve Fossett is strapped into...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - (From left, backs to the camera) Pilot Steve Fossett, Sir Richard Branson and Jon...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Pilot Steve Fossett (far right), Sir Richard Branson (center) and Jon Karkow (far left)...
Northrop Grumman’s L-1011 Stargazer aircraft, with the company’s Pegasus XL rocket attached beneath, takes off from...
Northrop Grumman’s L-1011 Stargazer aircraft, with the company’s Pegasus XL rocket attached beneath, takes off from...
NASA’s B200 taking off for an eight-hour science flight on March 5. Located on the center of the aircraft’s fuselage...
A joint NASA/Boeing team completed the first phase of flight tests on the unique X-48B Blended Wing Body aircraft at...
This sequence of images from takeoff to landing was taken by the downward-looking navigation camera of NASA's...
The augmentor wing concept was introduced during the early 1960s to enhance the performance of vertical and short...
The ER-2 conducted over 80 flight hours in service of the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem Postlaunch...
Distinguished by its large nose payload bay, NASA's Ikhana unmanned aircraft does an engine run prior to takeoff...
The X-56B remotely piloted aircraft takeoff marks the start of a new flight series. The flight was April 19 at...
The ER-2 aircraft is parked in a hangar at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, in March...
The X-56B remotely piloted aircraft prepares to takeoff to begin a new flight series. The flight was April 19 at...
North American F-100A NASA-200 Super Sabre airplane - wing leading edge deflected 60 degrees for increased lift with...
Crew chief Joe Kinn gives NASA's Ikhana unmanned aircraft a final check during engine run-up prior to takeoff at...
Michael Feary pilots a simulated electric vertical takeoff and landing, or eVTOL, aircraft in the VMS’s R-Cab during...
NASA's Morpheus Project has developed and tested a prototype planetary lander capable of vertical takeoff and...