HOUSTON (CW39) – When a NASA aircraft makes an unexpected landing, many may wonder what kind of plane it is and why it’s flying in the Houston area. A WB-57 is part of NASA’s High Altitude Research ...

At NASA's Johnson Space Center in Texas, there are three remarkable aircraft that the agency uses for research missions referred to as the WB-57. NASA classifies it as a jet, but it's not quite the ...

RAF MILDENHALL — The WB-57 Canberra, it seems, may be the world’s largest vacuum cleaner. This NASA high-altitude research aircraft is in Britain this month to collect samples of cosmic dust - little ...

In the wake of the catastrophic July Fourth floods that barreled through south central Texas, claiming 119 lives and leaving nearly 200 people missing, NASA dispatched two aircraft to aid local ...

NASA’s high-altitude WB-57 aircraft departs July 8, 2025, from Ellington Field in Houston. Two high-altitude aircraft from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston were deployed to the Texas Hill ...

HOUSTON — A NASA research aircraft made a gear-up landing at Ellington Airport late Tuesday morning after experiencing a mechanical issue, according to NASA. Cellphone video shared with KHOU 11 shows ...

The classic UK-built Canberra aircraft DID have independent landing gear position indicators in the cockpit, I'm not sure if the B-27 US variant did. It's also possible that the indicators were ...