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Preserving Aviation HIstory

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

Here is Orbiter OV-105 Endeavour being lifted off its transporter. It was raised to a vertical position and lifted up into high bay 1 to be attached to its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters in preparation for launch on the STS-123 mission in 2008. #spaceshuttle #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

NASA gets to fly the cool birds! Digital Fly-By-Wire project pioneered the use of an electronic flight-control system coupled with a digital computer to replace conventional mechanical flight controls. A modified F-8 DFBW Crusader was the first to be used to validate the concept in 1972 at the Flight Research Center (now Dryden). It was the forerunner of the fly-by-wire flight control systems now used on today's military and civil aircraft to make them safer, more maneuverab

Per request, here is Orbiter OV-105 Endeavour on the mate demate gantry in 2012 ready for the 747SCA to roll underneath. #spaceshuttle #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

How Space Shuttle pilots trained to land! #spaceshuttle #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

Artemis III core stage roll out yesterday #artemisiii #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

Per request, here is the mate-demate gantry at Edwards AFB with Orbiter OV-105 Endeavour being mated to the 747SCA in 2008 for return to KSC. #spaceshuttle #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari