Curtiss-Wright X-100 VTOL Aircraft

Curtiss-Wright X-100 VTOL Aircraft

A 33 minute flight evaluation of the Curtiss-Wright X-100 VTOL aircraft conducted in August 1960. Pioneering NASA Langley test pilot John P. “Jack” Reeder died in 1999, leaving an aviation legacy that spanned a half- century. Mr. Reeder’s extensive career with NASA and the agency’s predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics began in 1938 and ended in 1980. Along the way, he captained more than 235 airplanes, 61 helicopters and eight vertical takeoff and landing aircraft