San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed recently met with Ames Center Director S. Pete Worden and also took a quick tour of the Osmotic Lab and hyperwall-2 at Ames. Reed is seen here (sitting, right) at the hyperwall-2 with Steve Hipskind, Chief, NASA’s Earth Science Division (left).
San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed recently met with Ames Center Director S. Pete Worden and also took a quick tour of the Osmotic Lab and hyperwall-2 at Ames.
San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed recently met with Ames Center Director S. Pete Worden and also took a quick tour of the Osmotic Lab and hyperwall-2 at Ames.
San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed recently met with Ames Center Director S. Pete Worden and also took a quick tour of the Osmotic Lab and hyperwall-2 at Ames.
San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed recently met with Ames Center Director S. Pete Worden and also took a quick tour of the Osmotic Lab and hyperwall-2 at Ames.
San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed recently met with Ames Center Director S. Pete Worden and also took a quick tour of the Osmotic Lab and hyperwall-2 at Ames.
San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed recently met with Ames Center Director S. Pete Worden and also took a quick tour of the Osmotic Lab and hyperwall-2 at Ames.
San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed recently met with Ames Center Director S. Pete Worden and also took a quick tour of the Osmotic Lab and hyperwall-2 at Ames.
San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed recently met with Ames Center Director S. Pete Worden and also took a quick tour of the Osmotic Lab and hyperwall-2 at Ames.
San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed recently met with Ames Center Director S. Pete Worden and also took a quick tour of the Osmotic Lab and hyperwall-2 at Ames.
San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed recently met with Ames Center Director S. Pete Worden and also took a quick tour of the Osmotic Lab and hyperwall-2 at Ames.
San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed recently met with Ames Center Director S. Pete Worden and also took a quick tour of the Osmotic Lab and hyperwall-2 at Ames. Reed is seen here (sitting, right) at the hyperwall-2 with Steve Hipskind, Chief, NASA’s Earth Science Division (left). and Ames Center Director Pete Worden behind Reed.
San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed recently met with Ames Center Director S. Pete Worden and also took a quick tour of the Osmotic Lab and hyperwall-2 at Ames. Reed is seen here (sitting, right) at the hyperwall-2 with Steve Hipskind, Chief, NASA’s Earth Science Division (left). and Ames Center Director Pete Worden behind Reed.
Following the first M2-F1 airtow flight on 16 August 1963, the Flight Research Center used the vehicle for both research flights and to check out new lifting-body pilots. These included Bruce Peterson, Don Mallick, Fred Haise, and Bill Dana from NASA. Air Force pilots who flew the M2-F1 included Chuck Yeager, Jerry Gentry, Joe Engle, Jim Wood, and Don Sorlie, although Wood, Haise, and Engle only flew on car tows. In the three years between the first and last flights of the M2-F1, it made about 400 car tows and 77 air tows.
Dale Reed with a model of the M2-F1 in front of the actual lifting body. Reed used the model to show the potential of the lifting bodies. He first flew it into tall grass to test stability and trim, then hand-launched it from buildings for longer flights. Finally, he towed the lifting-body model aloft using a powered model airplane known as the "Mothership." A timer released the model and it glided to a landing. Dale's wife Donna used a 9 mm. camera to film the flights of the model. Its stability as it glided--despite its lack of wings--convinced Milt Thompson and some Flight Research Center engineers including the center director, Paul Bikle, that a piloted lifting body was possible.