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NASA Glenn Mechanic Thomas Thompson checks the nose wheel axle nut on NASA Glenn’s Learjet 25 research aircraft.
Oblique Wing Research Aircraft in flight
Walter C. Williams Research Aircraft Integration Facility (RAIF)
This 1976 photograph of the Oblique Wing Research Aircraft was taken in front of the NASA Flight Research Center...
Local politicians and National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) officials were on hand for the January 23,...
NASA's ultra-quiet YO-3A acoustics research aircraft taxis out from the ramp at the Dryden Flight Research Center...
Justin Hall, left, and Justin Link attach the wings onto a subscale aircraft on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025, at NASA’s...
Justin Link, left, and Justin Hall attach an engine onto a subscale aircraft on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025, at NASA’s...
Justin Hall, left, and Justin Link attach a section of landing gear onto a subscale aircraft on Friday, Sept. 12,...
Justin Hall, left, and Justin Link secure a wing onto a subscale aircraft on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025, at NASA’s...
Justin Hall, left, controls a subscale aircraft as Justin Link holds the aircraft in place during preliminary engine...
Justin Link, left, holds the subscale aircraft in place, while Justin Hall manages engine speed during preliminary...
Justin Link turns a subscale aircraft on its side to continue work to mark where the engine cowl will go and where...
Justin Hall attaches part of the landing gear of a subscale aircraft on Friday, Sept. 12, 2025, at NASA’s Armstong...
The first of three X-43A hypersonic research aircraft was mated to its modified Pegasus® booster rocket in late...
Fixing the "Fish" On July 19, 2014, Wayne Slade of Sequoia Scientific, and Allen Milligan of Oregon State...
Storm in the Sargasso Sea Scientist aboard the R/V Endeavor in the Sargasso Sea put their research on hold on July...
Catnap at Sea Ali Chase of the University of Maine, and Courtney Kearney of the Naval Research Laboratory, caught a...
The tailless X-36 technology demonstrator research aircraft cruises over the California desert at low altitude...
NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft flies above Palmdale and Edwards, California, during its first flight...
Seaweed and Light A type of seaweed called Sargassum, common in the Sargasso Sea, floats by an instrument deployed...
What's in the Water? Robert Foster, of the City College of New York, filters seawater on July 23, 2414, for...
Instruments Overboard On July 26, 2014, scientists worked past dusk to prepare and deploy the optical instruments...
Sunset Over the Gulf of Maine On July 20, 2013, scientists at sea with NASA's SABOR experiment witnessed a...