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Smoke generators show the twisting paths of wingtip vortices behind two NASA Dryden F/A-18 jets used in the...
These two NASA F/A-18 aircraft are flying a test point for the Autonomous Formation Flight project over California's...
Two NASA Dryden F/A-18's land on the Edwards Air Force Base runway after completion of an Autonomous Formation...
Flying an Autonomous Formation Flight mission, two F/A-18s from the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards,...
Smoke generators show the twisting paths of wingtip vortices behind two NASA Dryden F/A-18's used in the Autonomous...
NASA pilot Scott Howe, left, and Sikorsky safety pilot Brent Davis, prepare to board Sikorsky’s SARA S-76B...
Smoke generators show the twisting paths of wingtip vortices behind two NASA Dryden F/A-18's used in the Autonomous...
Smoke generators show the twisting paths of wingtip vortices behind two NASA Dryden F/A-18's used in the Autonomous...
Smoke generators show the twisting paths of wingtip vortices behind two NASA Dryden F/A-18's used in the Autonomous...
This unique view, looking directly up at two NASA Dryden F/A-18's used in the Autonomous Formation Flight (AFF)...
This image was taken during a flight test of JPL Autonomous Descent and Ascent Powered-Flight Testbed ADAPT. The...
NASA human factors researcher Kevin J. Monk, left, and NASA pilot Scott Howe verify the connectivity and accuracy of...
NASA pilots along with Sikorsky safety pilots flying Sikorsky’s Black Hawk Optionally Piloted Vehicle, left, and...
NASA research pilot David Zahn, left, wearing a temporal sensor and pupil tracking glasses works with NASA human...
NASA pilots along with Sikorsky safety pilots take off in Sikorsky’s SARA S-76B, left, and Black Hawk Optionally...
F/A-18 #845 behind an Omega Air Boeing 707 tanker during an Autonomous Airborne Refueling Demonstration (AARD) flight.
F/A-18 #845 behind an Omega Air Boeing 707 tanker during an Autonomous Airborne Refueling Demonstration (AARD) flight.
NASA's F/A-18B #845 was captured by the photographer as it returned from its final flight in the Autonomous Airborne...
Ground crewman at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Palmdale, CA install a rail to support the Autonomous,...
Pilot Dick Ewers and flight test engineer Leslie Molzahn were hands-off as NASA F/A-18 #845 flew itself into the...
iss065e277667 (Aug. 19, 2021) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 65 Flight Engineer Megan McArthur is monitoring an...
Lunar Node-1, an autonomous navigation payload that will change how human explorers safely traverse the Moon’s...
This photo shows the instrumentation and equipment inside the Spacewedge #3, a remotely-piloted research vehicle...
iss067e149715 (June 24, 2022) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 67 Flight Engineer Bob Hines monitors an Astrobee...