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Boeing Phantom Works' subscale Blended Wing Body technology demonstration aircraft began its initial flight tests...
Ikhana fiber optic wing shape sensor team: clockwise from left, Anthony "Nino" Piazza, Allen Parker, William Ko and...
U.S. and German personnel of the X-31 Enhanced Fighter Maneuverability Technology Demonstrator aircraft program...
During the 1970s, the focus at Dryden shifted from high-speed and high-altitude flight to incremental improvements...
NASA Associate Administrator for the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate Bob Pearce speaks on stage prior to...
Dr. Edgar Waggoner, Director, Integrated Systems research Program Office, National Aeronautics and Space...
NASA’s Crossflow Attenuated Natural Laminar Flow (CATNLF) scale-model wing flies on a NASA F-15 research jet during...
Final preparations are underway for NASA’s B-52B to carry the Pegasus booster rocket and the hypersonic X-43A...
The KC-135 with the winglets in flight over the San Gabriel mountains, south of Edwards AFB. While wind tunnel tests...
NASA Associate Administrator for the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate Bob Pearce speaks on stage prior to...
In aeronautics and space exploration, there is a need to connect and release components quickly and reliably. NASA’s...
NASA researchers James Cowart and Elizabeth Nail add sensors, wiring and cameras, to the NASA Airborne...
Justin Link, pilot for small uncrewed aircraft systems, installs weather instruments on NASA’s Alta X drone at the...
One of many safety posters produced by NACA artists during World War II. The Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory...
A group of university students and mentors flew aboard NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center’s DC-8 aircraft to...
NASA researchers with the Tropical Composition, Cloud and Climate Coupling, or TC4 experiment discuss the airborne...
NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft took to the skies for the first time Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025,...
The Active Aeroelastic Wing F-18A lifts off on its first checkout flight November 15, 2002, from NASA's Dryden...
An AH-64 (Apache) Longbow fire control full size radar photographed during icing tests in the Icing Research wind...
NASA researcher James Cowart adds the top back onto the NASA Airborne Instrumentation for Real-world Video of Urban...
Curtis Flack (left) and Paul von Hardenberg (right) inspect the ice formation on the spinner of an Advanced Air...
NASA Associate Administrator for the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate Bob Pearce speaks on stage prior to...
Dr. Edgar Waggoner, Director, Integrated Systems research Program Office, National Aeronautics and Space...
A researcher points out the trajectory of a weather pattern on a computer monitor during a flight aboard the NASA...