Boneyard Safari
Preserving Aviation HIstory

The number two X-29 flew at higher angles of attack than the number one aircraft, it required a spin chute system for safety. The system deployed a parachute for recovery of the aircraft if it inadvertently entered an uncontrolled spin. Most of the components of the spin chute system were located on a truss at the aft end of the aircraft. #x29 #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) with telescope postition to the rear model prepares for testing in the NASA Ames Research Center 14ft Transonic Wind Tunnel in 1994. #nasasofia #nasa #pimaairandspacemuseum #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

The beautiful artwork of W.S. Phillips Aeronautics Art, Titled X-15 Hypersonic Final. #x15 #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari A

Here is the X-29 during a 1991 research flight, smoke generators in the nose of the aircraft were used to help researchers see the behavior of the air flowing over the aircraft. #x29 #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

A bit more about the X-15 history at Pima Air and Space Museum! #x15 #b52 #thehighandmightyone #nasa #boneyardsafari

Check out the X-31 Enhanced Fighter Maneuverability Technology Demonstrator Aircraft, based at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, rolling aboard an C-5 which ferried it to Europe where it was flown in the Paris Air Show in June 1995. #x31 #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

The Orion parachute system during the testing phase of its descent after an air launch from a C-17 aircraft on Wednesday, July 18, 2012. This was a test version of the Orion during Capsule Parachute Assembly System project tests at the U.S. Army Proving Ground, near Yuma, AZ #orioncapsule #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

Here is the NASA-Boeing X-48C Hybrid/Blended Wing Body research aircraft banked left during one of its final test flights over Edwards AFB from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on Feb. 28, 2013. #x48c #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

An instrumented mannequin ejects, with help of pyrotechnics, from a specially modified YF-4J drone at the Naval Warfare Center Weapons Division at China Lake, CA, on Wednesday May 19, 1999. The test was the final flight in NASA’s ejection seat research, which began in 1995 at NASA’s Armstrong (then Dryden) Flight Research Center in Edwards, CA. The project was a collaboration between NASA, the Naval Warfare Center, and the Canada’s Department of National Defense. #f4phantom #

Orbiter OV-105 Endeavour being hoisted aloft in the Mate-Demate gantry at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center before being mounted atop its modified 747 carrier aircraft for a ferry flight back to KSC in 2008 #spaceshuttle #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari