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Aircraft taxied out to the runway in single file. It's a real ballet to watch the maint guys and gals pull the chocks and direct the aircraft. An observor can't help but see that safety is paramount on the flight line.

R4D Skytrain The R4D Skytrain was one of the work horses for NACA and NASA at Edwards AFB spanning a time from 1952 to 1984. Designated R4D by the Navy the aircraft was called C-47 by the Army, DC-3 by Douglas Aircraft and "Gooney Bird" by all others. Over the 32 years three R4D aircraft...

P-51 Mustang A P-51 Mustang, redesignated F-51 Mustang, was transferred to NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station (HSFRC) from Langley Research Center in 1950. The F-51 Mustang was the first aircraft to employ the NACA laminar-flow airfoil design and could dive to around Mach number 0.8. As...

PA-30 Twin Comanche A Piper PA-30 Twin Commanche, known as NASA 808, was used at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center as a rugged workhorse in a variety of research projects associated with both general aviation and military projects.

The P-38 shown in this photo was one of the fighters built in the late 1930s and early 1940s that experienced compressibility effects. In steep dives, these aircraft could reach speeds above Mach 0.75 (called transonic). At transonic speeds, air in front of the wings became compressed and...

North American F-100A (52-5778) Super Sabre on the Rogers Dry Lakebed in a 1955 photograph. NACA High-Speed Flight Station, Edwards, California, flew this F-100 Super Sabre from 1954 to 1960 to investigate stability and control features of the then-new supersonic Air Force fighter. The program...

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B-57B The Martin B-57B Canberra (Night Intruder) light bomber was used on several NASA joint flight test programs at the NASA Flight Research Center located at Edwards Air Force Base. The two seated aircraft was powered by two J-56-W-5 turbojet engines.

DC-8 Airborne Laboratory NASA operated a converted McDonnell Douglas DC-8 jetliner as a flying science laboratory. The highly-modified aircraft, was based at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., and served as a platform for data collection on a wide variety of experiments in...