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X-48B Continues Pushing Performance Envelope
NASA Dryden T-34 chase pilot Dick Ewers keeps a watchful eye on Boeing's X-48B Blended Wing Body research aircraft as it banks toward NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on the edge of Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. (NASA image / Lori Losey)
The X-48B project team is flying Block 3 and 4 flights to probe the aircraft's performance envelope, looking for the point of stall. The goal of this research phase is to determine the controllability of the aircraft in the stall and post-stall operating regime.
NASA Dryden T-34 chase pilot Dick Ewers keeps a watchful eye on Boeing's X-48B Blended Wing Body research aircraft as it banks toward NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on the edge of Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. (NASA image / Lori Losey) The X-48B project team is flying Block 3 and 4 flights to probe the aircraft's performance envelope, looking for the point of stall. The goal of this research phase is to determine the controllability of the aircraft in the stall and post-stall operating regime.
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Dryden News and Events Features
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Lancaster High Grad Brian Armstrong Interning at NASA Dryden
NASA intern Brian Armstrong has always been interested in aviation, thanks to the influence of his aerospace engineer father.
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Retired NASA Test Pilot Bill Dana Honored
Retired NASA Dryden Flight Research Center test pilot Bill Dana was honored Saturday evening, Aug. 9, by the Lancaster Jethawks Class A baseball team during its annual Aerospace Appreciation Night.
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NASA Awards Global Hawk Support Contract to Northrop Grumman
Dryden has awarded a contract to Northrop Grumman for engineering and technical services in support of the center's planned operation of two Global Hawk aircraft.
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Local College Student is Summer Intern at NASA Field Center
Univ. of Utah student Patricia Oliphant , of Highland, Ca., has always had a fascination with the atmosphere and meteorology.
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Local College Student is Summer Intern at NASA Field Center
College student Christopher O'Shea, of North Strabane, credits his father for the excitement he has for aviation.
Dryden Spotlight
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NASA's 50th Anniversary
Over the next year, NASA will celebrate 50 years of scientific and technological excellence.
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AMISA Update
NASA's DC-8 airborne laboratory recently concluded a series of long-duration flights in the Arctic between Scandinavia and Greenland as part of the Arctic Mechanisms of Interaction Between the Surface and Atmosphere (AMISA) mission.
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STS-125
A flight to upgrade what may be the most significant satellite ever launched -- the Hubble Space Telescope.
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SOFIA
NASA is developing the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy - or SOFIA - as a world-class airborne observatory that will complement the Hubble, Spitzer, Herschel and James Webb space telescopes and major Earth-based telescopes.
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Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility
Our new aircraft operations facility in Palmdale offers the expanded space needed to manage Dryden's airborne science missions and research platforms.
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Research Update
Current flight research projects and programs being flown at Dryden Flight Research Center.
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This Week in Dryden's History
A collection of historical facts and events from Dryden's last 50 years.
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X-Press
Newsletter devoted to the research conducted at DFRC and the people who make it happen.
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