Boneyard Safari
Preserving Aviation HIstory

Check out testing of the wing boundary layer control of the A3D in the 40 x 80 wind tunnel at NACA Ames in 1955. #a3d #nasa #windtunnel #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

Looks back at an F-86A on the Ames ramp in front of hangar 211 in 1955 flying for NACA. #nasa #f86 #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

NACA Ames Research Center's 6x6ft Supersonic Wind Tunnel compressor, showing rotor blades in 1949, that’s incredible! #nasa #nasaames #windtunnel #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

Checking out the Vomit Comet at Pima Air and Space Museum #vomitcomet #nasa #pimaairandspacemuseum #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

More wind tunnel test at NASA, researchers set up instrumentation on a 0.037- scale model of a Saturn booster in the 8- by 6-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel at the NASA Lewis Research Center. In October 1960 Lewis researchers John Allen and Robert Wasko began a 14-month investigation of the eight-engine booster’s base heating in the tunnel. The model resembled the Saturn C-1, but only the afterbody totally mimicked the C-1. #saturnv #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari #spacesaf

Here is a look at low speed testing of a model of a supersonic transport (SST) with delta wing and delta canards in the 40x80 Wind Tunnel at NASA Ames in 1961. #sst #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

A unique photo of Shuttle engine out testing done after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. This was part of the investigation after the Challenger accident in 1988. #spaceshuttle #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

Check out that livery on this Dagger flying for NASA! #f102 #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

The seating on the main deck of NASA’s 747SCA. #747sca #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

One of the Space Shuttle Main Engine being tested in 1981 at the National Space Technology Laboratories (now the Stennis Space Center) in Mississippi. The legacy of those engines is impressive. #spaceshuttle #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari