NASA Dryden's F/A-18 No. 852 makes a 40-degree dive toward Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards AFB with the Mars Science Laboratory's (MSL) landing radar under its left wing during verification and validation flights.
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Two NASA F/A-18B aircraft are captured in tight formation during a low-level flyover of NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center. NASA Dryden has flown the early-model two-seat F/A-18s for mission support duties and for occasional research missions since acquiring them from the U.S. Navy in the mid-1980s.August 27, 2010NASA Dryden / Tony Landis