IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This M2-F2 Lifting Body model of ...
In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, Jay L. King, Joseph D. Huxman and Orion D. Billeter assist NASA research pilot Milt Thompson (on the ladder) into the cockpit of the M2-F2 lifting ...
Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This M2-F3 lifting body was a heavyweight, wingless lifting body research craft of the 1960s. This F3 is the F2 ...
In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, the Remote Controlled research staff, from left to right: Richard C. Eldredge, Dale Reed, James O. Newman and Bob McDonald, display several lifting ...
Some 45,000 ft. above the Southern California desert last week, a B-52 bomber cut loose the strange cargo tucked under its wing. Freed from the mother ship, a gleaming but cumbersome aluminum shape ...
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE – Retired NASA pilot Bruce Peterson, perhaps best known to the general public for surviving a spectacular crash that was used in the opening credits of the 1970s TV show “The ...
At ten feet wide, 22 feet long, and 4,620 pounds without ballast, the M2-F2 flewand hit the desertlike an anvil. Forty-four years ago, Bruce Peterson barely survived the beast. The Incredible Flying ...
The contraption looked more like an inverted flat iron than a flying machine. With two tail fins and no wings, a rounded belly and a flat top, the experimental craft M2-F2 was rolled out last week by ...