Complete NASA Dryden Staff of 1996 for 50th anniversary, on back ramp of building 4800

Carbon-Carbon Control Surface in heating and loading test configuration

Apex simulator

Eclipse project QF-106 and C-141A climbs out under tow on first tethered flight December 20, 1997

This console and its compliment of computers, monitors and commmunications equipment make up the Research Engineering Test Station, the nerve center for an aerodynamics experiment conducted by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. The equipment was installed on a modified Lockheed L-1011 Tristar jetliner operated by Orbital Sciences Corp., of Dulles, Va., for Dryden's Adaptive Performance Optimization project. The experiment sought to improve the efficiency of long-range jetliners by using small movements of the ailerons to improve the aerodynamics of the wing at cruise conditions.