[1]. R. Dale Reed, “Flight Research Techniques Utilizing Remotely Piloted Research Vehicles,” UAV Flight Test Lessons Learned Workshop, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, Dec. 18, 1996.
[2]. Peter W. Merlin and Tony Moore, X-Plane Crashes: Exploring Experimental, Rocket Plane, and Spycraft Incidents, Accidents and Crash Sites (North Branch: Specialty Press, 2008), pp. 130–149.
[3]. Reed, “Flight Research Techniques Utilizing Remotely Piloted Research Vehicles.”
[4]. Richard P. Hallion and Michael H. Gorn, On the Frontier: Experimental Flight at NASA Dryden (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 2002), p. 207.
[5]. R. Dale Reed, with Darlene Lister, Wingless Flight: The Lifting Body Story, NASA SP-4220 (Washington, DC: NASA, 1997), pp. 8–23.
[6]. Ibid.
[7]. Reed and Lister, Wingless Flight, pp. 158–161.
[8]. Ibid.
[9]. Hallion and Gorn, On the Frontier, p. 207.
[10]. Ibid.
[11]. Ibid.
[12]. Reed and Lister, Wingless Flight, pp. 161–165.
[13]. Ibid.
[14]. Ibid.
[15]. Ibid.
[16]. Hallion and Gorn, On the Frontier, pp. 208–209.
[17]. Operations Fact Sheet OFS-808-77-1, Model PA-30, prepared by W. Albrecht, Sept. 20, 1977, DFRC Historical Reference Collection, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.
[18]. Hallion and Gorn, On the Frontier, pp. 208–209.
[19]. OAST Flight Research Operations Review Committee minutes, Jan. 31–Feb. 1, 1973, DFRC Historical Reference Collection, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.
[20]. R. Dale Reed, “High-Flying Mini-Sniffer RPV: Mars Bound?” Astronautics and Aeronautics (June 1978), pp. 26–39.
[21]. Ibid.
[22]. Ibid.
[23]. Ibid.
[24]. J.W. Akkerman, “Hydrazine Monopropellant Reciprocating Engine Development,” Journal of Engineering for Industry, vol. 101, no. 4 (Nov. 1979), pp. 456–462.
[25]. Reed, “Flight Research Techniques Utilizing Remotely Piloted Research Vehicles.”
[26]. Reed, “High-Flying Mini-Sniffer RPV: Mars Bound?”
[27]. Ibid.
[28]. Hallion and Gorn, On the Frontier, p. 210.
[29]. Reed, “Flight Research Techniques Utilizing Remotely Piloted Research Vehicles.”
[30]. Hallion and Gorn, On the Frontier, pp. 210–211.
[31]. F-15 Drone Flight Report, Flight No. D-1-3, Oct. 12, 1973, DFRC Historical Reference Collection, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.
[32]. Ibid.
[33]. Hallion and Gorn, On the Frontier, p. 211.
[34]. F-15 Drone Flight Report, Flight No. D-4-6, Dec. 21, 1973, DFRC Historical Reference Collection, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.
[35]. Project Document OPD 80-67, Spin Research Vehicle Nose Shape Project, Feb. 5, 1980, DFRC Historical Reference Collection, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.
[36]. Ibid.
[37]. F-15 RPRV/SRV Flight Log, compiled by Peter W. Merlin, July 2001, DFRC Historical Reference Collection, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.
[38]. R. Dale Reed, “RPRVs—The First and Future Flights,” Astronautics and Aeronautics (Apr. 1974), pp. 26–42.
[39]. Recollection of Hallion, who, as AFFTC historian, was present at the postflight briefing to the commander, AFFTC; see James O. Young, History of the Air Force Flight Test Center, Jan. 1, 1982–Dec. 31, 1982, vol. 1 (Edwards AFB, CA: AFFTC History Office, 1984), pp. 348–352.
[40]. Michael J. Hirschberg, David M. Hart, and Thomas J. Beutner, “A Summary of a Half-Century of Oblique Wing Research,” paper No. AIAA-2007-150, 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, NV, Jan. 2007.
[41]. Ibid.
[42]. Milton O. Thompson’s correspondence and project files, 1975, DFRC Historical Reference Collection, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.
[43]. Hirschberg, Hart, and Beutner, “A Summary of a Half-Century of Oblique Wing Research.”
[44]. Oblique Wing Research Aircraft (OWRA) Flight Log, compiled by Peter W. Merlin, Jan. 2002, DFRC Historical Reference Collection, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.
[45]. Richard F. Porter, David W. Hall, Joe H. Brown, Jr., and Gerald M. Gregorek, “Analytical Study of a Free-Wing/Free-Trimmer Concept,” Battelle Columbus Laboratories, Columbus, OH, Dec. 7, 1977, DFRC Historical Reference Collection, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.
[46]. Shu Gee, “Preliminary Research Proposal—Free-Wing Concept (First Draft),” Dec. 2, 1976, DFRC Historical Reference Collection, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.
[47]. “Proposed Research Program (Technical Proposal) on Analytical Study of a Free-Wing, Free-Stabilizer Concept,” Battelle Columbus Laboratories, Columbus, OH, Oct. 20, 1976, DFRC Historical Reference Collection, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.
[48]. Shu W. Gee and Samuel R. Brown, “Flight Tests of a Radio-Controlled Airplane Model with a Free-Wing, Free-Canard Configuration,” NASA TM-72853, Mar. 1978, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.
[49]. Ibid.
[50]. Ibid.
[51]. H.N Murrow and C.V. Eckstrom, “Drones for Aerodynamic and Structural Testing (DAST)—A Status Report,” AIAA Aircraft Systems and Technology Conference, Los Angeles, CA, Aug. 21–23, 1978.
[52]. Ibid.
[53]. David L. Grose, “The Development of the DAST I Remotely Piloted Research Vehicle for Flight Testing an Active Flutter Suppression Control System,” NASA CR-144881, University of Kansas, Feb. 1979.
[54]. DAST flight logs and mission reports, 1975–1983, DFRC Historical Reference Collection, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.
[55]. John W. Edwards, “Flight Test Results of an Active Flutter Suppression System Installed on a Remotely Piloted Vehicle,” NASA TM-83132, May 1981, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA.
[56]. Ibid.
[57]. Ibid.
[58]. Merlin, DAST flight logs, Sept. 1999, DFRC Historical Reference Collection, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.
[59]. Edwards, “Flight Test Results of an Active Flutter Suppression System Installed on a Remotely Piloted Vehicle.”
[60]. Merlin, DAST flight logs.
[61]. Paul C. Loschke, Garrison P. Layton, George H. Kidwell, William P. Albrecht, William H. Dana, and Eugene L. Kelsey, “Report of DAST-1R Test Failure Investigation Board,” Dec. 30, 1983, DFRC Historical Reference Collection, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.
[62]. This event is recorded with other DAST mission markings painted on the side of the NB-52B even though the modified Stratofortress was not the launch aircraft for the ill-fated mission.
[63]. Loschke, et al., “Report of DAST-1R Test Failure Investigation Board.”
[64]. Milton O. Thompson and John C. Mathews, “Investigation of DAST Project,” Jan. 22, 1979, DFRC Historical Reference Collection, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.
[65]. Loschke, et al., “Report of DAST-1R Test Failure Investigation Board.”
[66]. DAST briefing material, Thompson collection, April 1987, DFRC Historical Reference Collection, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.
[67]. L.E. Brown, Jr., M.H. Roe, and R.A. Quam, “HiMAT Systems Development Results and Projections,” Society of Automotive Engineers Aerospace Congress and Exposition, Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 13–16, 1980.
[68]. Ibid.
[69]. Ibid.
[70]. L.E. Brown, M. Roe, and C.D. Wiler, “The HiMAT RPRV System,” AIAA Paper 78-1457, AIAA Aircraft Systems and Technology Conference, Los Angeles, CA, Aug. 21–23, 1978.
[71]. Henry H. Arnaiz and Paul C. Loschke, “Current Overview of the Joint NASA/USAF HiMAT Program,” NASA CP-2162 (1980), pp. 91–121.
[72]. E.L. Duke, F.P. Jones, and R.B. Roncoli, “Development of a Flight Test Maneuver Autopilot for a Highly Maneuverable Aircraft,” AIAA Paper 83-0061, AIAA 21st Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, NV, Jan. 10–13, 1983.
[73]. HiMAT Flight Reports, 1979–1983, DFRC Historical Reference Collection, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.
[74]. Reed, “Flight Research Techniques Utilizing Remotely Piloted Research Vehicles.”
[75]. HiMAT fact sheet (FS-2002-06-025), NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, June 2002.
[76]. Controlled Impact Demonstration project files, 1978–1984, and personal diary of Timothy W. Horton, 1980–1986, DFRC Historical Reference Collection, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.
[77]. Julian Moxon, “Crash for Safety,” Flight International, May 12, 1984, pp. 1270–1274.
[78]. Richard DeMeis, “What Really Happened in Safe Fuel Test,” Aerospace America, July 1985, pp. 47–49. Additional information from Moxon, “Crash for Safety.”
[79]. Les Reinertson, “NASA/FAA Full-Scale Transport Controlled Impact Demonstration Fact Sheet,” Release No. 84-26, 1984, NASA Ames Research Center, Dryden Flight Research Facility,Edwards, CA.
[80]. Ibid.
[81]. Paul F. Harney, James B. Craft, Jr., and Richard G. Johnson, “Remote Control of an Impact Demonstration Vehicle,” NASA TM-85925, Apr. 1985, NASA Ames Research Center, Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA.
[82]. Merlin, Boeing 720B Controlled Impact Demonstration flight logs, July 1998, DFRC Historical Reference Collection, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.
[83]. Edwin L. Fasanella, Emilio Alfaro-Bou, and Robert J. Hayduk, “Impact Data From a Transport Aircraft During a Controlled Impact Demonstration,” NASA TP-2589 (Sept. 1986), NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC.
[84]. Ibid.
[85]. Timothy W. Horton and Robert W. Kempel, “Flight Test Experience and Controlled Impact of a Remotely Piloted Jet Transport Aircraft,” NASA TM-4084 (Nov. 1988), NASA Ames Research Center, Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA.
[86]. Ibid.
[87]. Letter from Congressman William Carney to Martin Knutson, Director, Flight Operations, NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility, Dec. 3, 1984, Timothy W. Horton collection via Terri Horton, Lancaster, CA.
[88]. Merlin, Tornado/HIRM Flight Log, Feb. 2000, DFRC Historical Reference Collection, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.
[89]. Notes on Safety Aspects of Testing Free-Flight Models of Tornado, n.d., Roy Bryant files, DFRC Historical Reference Collection, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.
[90]. Merlin, Tornado/HIRM Flight Log.
[91]. Ibid.
[92]. Ibid.
[93]. Ibid.
[94]. William B. Scott, “Vehicle Used in Nuclear Weapon Program Offered as Advanced Hypersonic Testbed,” Aviation Week & Space Technology (Aug. 6, 1996).
[95]. Preliminary Draft—Engineering Study for a Joint NASA/Sandia Hypersonic Flight Test Program, Dec. 1985, DFRC Historical Reference Collection, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.
[96]. Personal diary of Timothy W. Horton, 1980–1986, DFRC Historical Reference Collection, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.
[97]. Avocet Offsite Operations Plan, (Draft) April 1986, DFRC Historical Reference Collection, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.
[98]. Ibid.