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Aircraft |
Research Program |
Flight Dates |
#Images |
A-5A Vigilante
(Historical) |
SST and Sonic Boom Research |
1963 |
1 |
AD-1 (Historical) |
Oblique Wing Research |
1979 - 1982 |
1 |
Altus (Historical) |
ERAST Program - High Altitude Unmanned Aerial Vehicle |
1995 - 1998 |
1 |
Apex (Historical) |
ERAST Program - High Altitude Sailplane |
1996 - 1997 |
1 |
B-47A (Historical) |
Landing Drag Chute Study and Dynamic Response
Research |
1953 - 1957 |
1 |
B-52 |
Air Drop Mothership |
1959 - present |
1 |
B-57B Canberra
(Historical) |
Atmospheric Research |
1982 |
2 |
B-58 Hustler
(Historical) |
Chase Aircraft |
1960s |
1 |
Boeing 720 (Historical) |
CID - Controlled Impact Demonstration |
1984 |
1 |
Boeing 727 (Historical) |
Vortex study |
1974 |
1 |
Boeing 737-300
(Historical) |
Vortex Study |
1970s |
1 |
Boeing 747 SCA |
Shuttle Carrier Aircraft |
1978 - present |
3 |
Boeing 757 (Historical) |
NASA Langley flight research |
N/A |
1 |
B377SG Super Guppy
(Historical) |
Pilot study and system transport |
1976 |
1 |
C-17 Globemaster III |
Propulsion Health Management (PHM) |
2003 - present |
1 |
C-47 / R4D (Historical) |
Personnel Transportation / Air Tow of M2-F1 |
1952 - 1984 |
1 |
C-130B (Historical) |
Airborne Science |
N/A |
1 |
C-140 JetStar
(Historical) |
General Purpose Airborne Simulator (GPAS) |
1963 - 1985 |
1 |
Centurion (Historical) |
High Altitude Solar Powered Aircraft |
1997 |
1 |
CV-990A (Historical) |
LSRA - Landing Systems Research Aircraft |
1993 - 1997 |
2 |
D-558-1 Skystreak
(Historical) |
Transonic Flight Research |
1947 - 1953 |
1 |
D-558-2 Skyrocket
(Historical) |
Transonic and Supersonic Flight Research |
1949 - 1956 |
2 |
DC-8 |
Airborne Sciences |
1998 - present |
1 |
ER-2 |
High Altitude Research |
1997 - present |
2 |
F-4 (Historical) |
Biomedical research, Chase |
1960s |
2 |
F-5A (Historical) |
High-lift flaps for transonic maneuverability |
1970 - 1971 |
1 |
F-8 (Historical) |
Flight support |
1971 - 1985 |
1 |
F-8 DFBW (Historical) |
Digital-Fly-By-Wire |
1972 - 1985 |
1 |
F-8 SCW (Historical) |
Super Critical Wing |
1971 - 1973 |
2 |
F-14A (Historical) |
Variable Sweep Transition flight experiment |
1986 - 1987 |
1 |
F-15A (Historical) |
Flight research, Highly Integrated Digital Electronic
Control, Digital Electronic Engine Control |
1976 - 1981 |
2 |
F-15B |
Aerodynamic loads, speeds, and temperature research |
1993 - present |
1 |
F-15 ACTIVE |
Advanced Control Technology for Integrated Vehicles |
1993 - present |
1 |
F-16A (Historical) |
F-16 AFTI |
1983 |
1 |
F-16XL Ship #1
(Historical) |
CAWAP - Cranked Aero Wing Aerodynamics Project |
1994 - 1996 |
1 |
F-16XL Ship #2
(Historical) |
Supersonic Laminar Flow |
1994 - 1997 |
2 |
F-18A |
Chase aircraft |
1990 - present |
2 |
F-18 HARV (Historical) |
High Alpha Research Vehicle |
1987 - 1997 |
2 |
F-18 SRA |
Systems Research Aircraft |
1993 - present |
3 |
F-84F (Historical) |
Pitch-up research |
1954 - 1965 |
2 |
F-86F (Historical) |
Air Force flight research |
1954 |
1 |
F-89 (Historical) |
Air Force flight research |
1950s |
1 |
F-100 Super Sabre
(Historical) |
Inertial Coupling (stability) |
1954 - 1956 |
1 |
F-102A (Historical) |
Delta wing prototype fighter |
1956 - 1959 |
1 |
F-104 Starfighter
(Historical) |
Inertial coupling, reaction controls, noise research |
1956 - 1973 |
2 |
F-106 Delta Dart
(Historical) |
Eclipse air tow program |
1997 |
1 |
F-111A
Aardvaark (Historical) |
Transonic Aircraft Technology (TACT) |
1970s |
1 |
F-111 AFTI/MAW
Aardvaark (Historical) |
Advanced Fighter Integration Technology / Mission
Adaptive Wing |
1974 - 1986 |
2 |
F5D-1 (Historical) |
Chase for Lifting Body program |
1960s - 1970s |
1 |
Gulfstream II
(Historical) |
|
|
1 |
Gulfstream III
(Historical) |
|
|
1 |
Helios |
Solar Powered Aircraft |
1999 - present |
1 |
HL-10 (Historical) |
Lifting Body Research |
1966 - 1970 |
3 |
HL-20 (Historical) |
Lifting Body Research |
|
1 |
HiMAT (Historical) |
RPV - Highly Maneuverable Aircraft Technology |
1979 - 1983 |
1 |
KC-135 Stratotanker
(Historical) |
Evaluate capabilities of jet aircraft in air traffic control
system, Winglet Study |
1958 and 1979 |
1 |
KingAir-B200 |
Support Aircraft |
1992 - present |
1 |
LLRV (Historical) |
Lunar Landing Research Vehicle |
1964 - 1967 |
1 |
Learjet (Historical) |
Airborne Sciences |
1998 - 2001 |
1 |
LoFLYTE (Historical) |
Waverider concept model |
mid 1990s |
1 |
M2-F1 (Historical) |
Lifting Body |
1963 - 1964 |
1 |
M2-F2 (Historical) |
Lifting Body |
1966 - 1967 |
1 |
MD-11 (Historical) |
Propulsion Controlled Aircraft |
1995 |
1 |
Miscellaneous |
Key to Artist Bob McCall mural painting |
2003 |
2 |
NB-52B |
Air-drop mothership |
1950s - present |
1 |
OV-1 (Historical) |
Stall speed warning system |
1983 |
1 |
P-51D Mustang
(Historical) |
Chase (X-1A), Pilot proficiency |
1940s - 1950s |
1 |
PA-30 Twin
Comanche (Historical) |
NASA 808 RPRV - Remotely Piloted Research Vehicle |
1979 - 1980 |
1 |
Paresev 1-A
(Historical) |
Spacecraft landing control systems |
1962 - 1964 |
1 |
Pathfinder (Historical) |
ERAST - Solar Powered Aircraft |
1995 |
2 |
Pegasus (Historical) |
Air-launched space booster |
1989 - 1994 |
1 |
RSRA (Historical) |
Rotor Systems Research Aircraft |
1980 - 1981 |
1 |
Schweizer_1-36
(Historical) |
Deep Stall Research |
1974 |
1 |
SR-71 Blackbird
(Historical) |
High Speed Flight Research |
1990 - present |
6 |
Space Shuttle (STS)
(Historical) |
Space Flight |
1979 - present |
9 |
T-34C (Historical) |
Chase, pilot proficiency |
1996 - present |
1 |
T-38 |
Chase, pilot proficiency |
1970s - present |
1 |
TF-104G (Historical) |
Chase, Research External Visibility Display for X-30 |
1998 |
2 |
TU-144LL (Historical) |
Supersonic Research |
1996 - 1999 |
2 |
X-1 / XS-1 (Historical) |
Supersonic Flight Research |
1946 - 1958 |
1 |
X-1A (Historical) |
Supersonic Flight Research |
1946 - 1958 |
1 |
X-1B (Historical) |
Supersonic Flight Research |
1946 - 1958 |
1 |
X-1E (Historical) |
Supersonic Flight Research |
1946 - 1958 |
2 |
X-2 (Historical) |
Supersonic swept wing |
1955 - 1956 |
1 |
X-3 (Historical) |
Sustained flight at Mach 2+, low aspect ratio wings |
1953 - 1956 |
1 |
X-4 (Historical) |
Semi-tailless aircraft |
1954 |
1 |
X-5 (Historical) |
Variable sweep wings |
1952 - 1955 |
1 |
X-15 (Historical) |
Hypersonic flight at high altitude |
1959 - 1968 |
2 |
X-24A (Historical) |
Lifting body flight research |
1969 - 1972 |
1 |
X-24B (Historical) |
Lifting body flight research |
1972 - 1975 |
2 |
X-29 (Historical) |
Forward Swept Wing |
1984 - 1992 |
2 |
X-31 (Historical) |
Enhanced Fighter Maneuverability Demonstrator |
1992 - 1995 |
2 |
X-33 (Historical) |
Advanced Technology Demonstrator |
1996 - present |
1 |
X-34 (Historical) |
Advanced Technology Demonstrator |
1997 - present |
1 |
X-36 (Historical) |
Tailless Aircraft Research |
1996 - present |
2 |
X-38 (Historical) |
Experimental Crew Return Vehicle |
1996 - present |
1 |
X-43A/Hyper-X |
X-43A Unpiloted Hypersonic Research Vehicle |
1996 - present |
8 |
XB-70A Valkyrie
(Historical) |
Stability and handling of large delta-wing aircraft at high
speed |
1967 - 1969 |
1 |
XF-88 (Historical) |
|
1950s |
1 |
XF-91 Thunderceptor
(Historical) |
Prototype fighter
|
1950s |
1 |
XF-92A (Historical) |
Evaluate delta wing concept |
1953 |
1 |
XV-15 Tilt Rotor
(Historical) |
Improve design and efficiency of rotorcraft using tilt rotors |
1970 - 1978 |
1 |
XP-51 (Historical) |
|
1950s, 2000 |
1 |
YAV-8B Harrier
(Historical) |
Vertical Take-Off and Landing |
1980s |
1 |
YF-12A Blackbird
(Historical) |
High speed, high altitude research, aerodynamic and
thermal loads |
1970 - 1978 |
1 |
YF-102 Delta Dagger
(Historical) |
Delta wing research |
1954 - 1958 |
1 |
YO-3A |
Chase and Pilot Proficiency |
1997 - present |
1 |
Pilots |
Pilots and Equipment |
1946 - present |
1 |
Dryden Maps |
Facility and Center Maps |
1946 - present |
7 |
Logos and Insignias |
NASA and Project Logos and Insignias |
1946 - present |
6 |