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Masten Space Systems technician making adjustments to NASA's autonomous landing technologies payload

Pipistrel-USA Team Lead Jack Langelaan talks after his team won the 2011 Green Flight Challenge, sponsored by Google

Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency (CAFE) Foundation President Brien A. Seeley M.D

Team Lead Jack Langelaan poses for a photograph next to the Pipistrel-USA, Taurus G4

NASA's SOFIA infrared observatory 747SP is shadowed by a NASA F/A-18 during a flyby at its new home

The flight crew of NASA's SOFIA airborne observatory includes (from left)

An aircraft tug tows NASA's SOFIA infrared observatory 747SP into Hangar 703 upon arrival at its base

Thousands of NASA Ames employees and their families toured NASA's SOFIA flying observatory during its first visit

NASA Dryden's Ikhana ground crewmen Gus Carreno and James Smith load the thermal-infrared imaging scanner pallet

NASA's new SOFIA observatory shared the ramp with its predecessor, the now-retired Kuiper Airborne Observatory

NASA's SOFIA flying infrared observatory banks over the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility upon arrival at its new

With smoke from the Lake Arrowhead area fires streaming in the background

Technicians carefully maneuver a spreader bar into place before removing the telescope aperture assembly from NASA'

NASA Ames engineer Ted Hildum checks out the thermal-infrared scanner computer before it is loaded on NASA'

A large mobile crane and hi-lift are maneuvered into place for removal of the aperture assembly

NASA's SOFIA infrared observatory touches down at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, Calif

NASA's SOFIA airborne observatory taxis past Hangar 1, the 1930s-era dirigible hangar at Moffett Field

NASA's now-retired Kuiper Airborne Observatory shared the limelight with its successor, the SOFIA observatory

The flight crew of NASA's SOFIA airborne observatory and DLR telescope engineers who operated the system during its

Technicians carefully disassemble portions of the aperture mounting assembly from NASA'

Technicians guide removal of the upper rigid door assembly that covers the telescope cavity on NASA'

Pathfinder-Plus flight in Hawaii June 2002

One of two small APV-3 aircraft flown in the joint Ames-Dryden Networked UAV Teaming Experiment flares for landing on a

Two identical RnR Products APV-3 aircraft validated cooperative flight control software in the Networked UAV Teaming

NASA Dryden Operations co-op student Shannon Kolensky holds one of the APV-3 UAVs flown in the Networked UAV Teaming

Pathfinder-Plus on flight over Hawaiian Islands, with N'ihau and Lehua in the background

Following the first M2-F1 airtow flight on 16 August 1963, the Flight Research Center used the vehicle for both

After the grounding of the M2-F1 in 1966, it was kept in outside storage on the Dryden complex

Pathfinder-Plus on a flight over Hawaii in 1998

This photo shows the cockpit configuration of the M2-F1 wingless lifting body

Pathfinder-Plus on flight over Hawaiian Islands in 1998

The cockpit and instrument panel of the AD-1 aircraft. Due to the small size of the AD-1

In this photo of the M2-F1 lifting body and the Paresev 1B on the ramp, the viewer sees two vehicles representing

JF-100C #709 cockpit control panel July 17, 1963

Pathfinder-Plus on flight over Hawaii

Pathfinder-Plus on a flight in 1998 over Hawaiian waters

The lack of a vertical tail on the X-36 technology demonstrator is evident as the remotely piloted aircraft flies a

The AD-1 aircraft with its wing swept. Visible are the twin jet engines that powered the aircraft

NASA Flight Research Pilot Milt Thompson, shown here on the lakebed with the M2-F1 lifting body

This look-down view of the X-36 Tailless Fighter Agility Research Aircraft on the ramp at NASA'

The M2-F1 was fitted with an ejection seat before the airtow flights began

The unusual lines of the X-36 technology demonstrator contrast sharply with the desert floor as the remotely piloted

As the sun creeps above the horizon of Rogers Dry Lake at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California

Research pilot Richard E. Gray, standing in front of the AD-1 Oblique Wing research aircraft

AD-1 in flight. Flight #30. The AD-1 aircraft in flight with its wing swept at 60 degrees, the maximum sweep angle

After initial ground-tow flights of the M2-F1 using the Pontiac as a tow vehicle

Multiple exposure image showing wing movement on AD-1

The tailless X-36 technology demonstrator research aircraft cruises over the California desert at low altitude during a

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