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Tough landing

Landing aboard a straight deck carrier #aircraftcarrier #boneyardsafari #navalsafari #aviationsafari

JetStar testbed

Check out the C-140 JetStar on the Dryden Ramp, a subscale propeller has been fitted to the upper fuselage of the aircraft in 1982. #jetstar #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

b-70 in Flight

Here is the XB-70 prototype aircraft No. 1. NASA used the pre-production bomber for high-speed research in the mid-1960’s. #xb70 #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafariu

Lots of vectoring

Check out three thrust-vectoring aircraft at Edwards, AFB, in flight, 1994. They were from left, NASA's F-18 High Alpha Research Vehicle (HARV), flown by the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, the X-31, flown by the X-31 International Test Organization (ITO) at Dryden, and the Air Force F-16 Multi-Axis Thrust Vectoring (MATV) aircraft. #thrustvectoring #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafariu

Old school

A look back at when started exploring the Philippine Mars. #philippinemars #pimaairandspacemuseum #boneyardsafari

HiMAT

Someone mentioned they like canards, so here is the HiMAT (Highly Maneuverable Aircraft Technology) subscale research vehicle, seen here during a research flight, was flown by the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, from mid 1979 to January 1983. #himat #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari