This brave soul is NASA test pilot Milt Thompson, and the test aircraft attached to a pylon under the wing of the B-52 is an M2-F2 lifting-body aircraft.
April 15, 2012 4:00 AM PDT
Photo by: NASA
| Caption by: Jonathan Skillings
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