X-36 Being Prepared on Lakebed for First Flight

Lit by the rays of the morning sunrise on Rogers Dry Lake, adjacent to NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, technicians prepare the remotely-piloted X-36 Tailless Fighter Agility Research Aircraft for its first flight in May 1997.

Lit by the rays of the morning sunrise on Rogers Dry Lake, adjacent to NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, technicians prepare the remotely-piloted X-36 Tailless Fighter Agility Research Aircraft for its first flight in May 1997.

Photographer NASA/Carla Thomas
Location AFRC
X-36Dryden Flight Research CenterBoeing Phantom WorksMcDonnell DouglasAmes Research CenterWilliams InternationalMoffett FieldF112 engineturbofanAir Force Research LaboratoryAFRLReconfigurable Control for Tailless Fighter AircraftRESTOREsoftwareneural-net algorithm