Display Status:
This object is not on display at the National Air and Space Museum. It is either on loan or in storage.
Collection Item Summary:
One-half right rear air to air view of a Ryan Firebee Q-2A pilotless drone target in flight shortly after launch from its Douglas B-26 Invader mothership (above) in flight over the desert during U. S. Air Force development tests at Holloman Air Development Center, Alamagordo, New Mexico, circa 1952-1953.
Collection Item Long Description:
Topic
- Aeronautics, Military
- Aircraft
- Drone aircraft
- Cold War, 1945-1989