DFRC Photo #	Photo Date	Image Description
		X-29 Photo Collection Contact Sheet
EC90-039-4	1990	X-29 ship #2 in flight at an angle that highlights the forward swept wings
EC90-357-4	1990	X-29 ships #1 and #2 on lakebed
EC90-357-06	1990	X-29 ships #1 and #2 on lakebed
EC90-357-7	1990	X-29 on lakebed
EC89-0127-2	1989	X-29 on runway
EC89-0127-004	1990	X-29 #049 - first flight
EC85-33297-23	1985	X-29 in flight from above
EC87-0182-14	1987	X-29 in banked flight
EC90-357-3	Nov 1990	X-29 on lakebed
EC90-357-12	Nov 1990	X-29 on lakebed
EC91-491-6	1991	X-29 at high angle of attack
EC91-491-07	1991	X-29 at high angle of attack with smoke generators
EC89-216-5	27 Jun 1989	X-29 in flight closeup of spin chute mechanism
EC89-0254-1	Sep 1989	X-29 cockpit
EC88-221-11	1988	X-29 in protective cover being transported by truck to Dryden
EC89-0300-1	1989	Western Aeronautical Test Range (WATR) mission control Gold room during X-29 flight
EC88-106-1	1988	X-29 research pilot Rogers Smith
EC93-41012-3	1993	Dryden Research Aircraft Fleet on ramp - 1993: X-15 (mockup), F-18, SR-71, X-31, X-29

The X-29, featuring one of the most unusual aircraft designs in aviation history, was flown by the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, as a technology demonstrator to investigate a host of advanced concepts and technologies. The program provided a unique engineering database that could be used in the design and development of future aircraft.

The concepts and technologies the fighter-size X-29 explored were the use of advanced composites in aircraft construction; variable camber wing surfaces; the unique forward-swept-wing and its thin supercritical airfoil; strake flaps; and a computerized fly-by-wire flight control system that overcomes the aircraft's instability. They were flight tested at Dryden from 1984 to 1992 in a joint NASA, DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) and U.S. Air Force Program, and made a total of 374 combined flights.

Dryden Home > Collections > Photo Home > X-29