Ever since the dawn of aviation many years ago aircraft have established themselves as fixed-wing machines capable of taking to the sky. Why winged? Well, for the simple reason that such a design is ...
Click to open image viewer. This M2-F2 Lifting Body model of unknown scale was given to Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, Deputy Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from 1958 until ...
Steve Austin, the bionic character on the television show "The Six Million Dollar Man," was largely based on someone born in North Dakota. Bruce Peterson was an experienced NASA research pilot who was ...
The X-24B Lifting Body Paved the Way for the Space Shuttle – In the collection of the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (AFB), Dayton, Ohio, is a ...
Local pilot and inventor Marvin Joy stands next to his experimental wingless plane that he called the “pumpkin seed.” The plane was flown twice at Pearson Field, in perhaps the first test of a lifting ...
Robert Dale Reed, a distinguished NASA aeronautics researcher who pioneered Lifting Body and remotely piloted research aircraft programs at the Dryden Flight Research Center in the 1960s and 70s has ...
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