DLR's research aircraft provide platforms for all kinds of research missions.

The X-15 was a research aircraft, and there were changes to it over the course of the program and between the different airframes.

These were two rare cases of research aircraft carrying nose art.

Second prototype, completed 1947 as three-seat research aircraft.

One Jaguar converted into a research aircraft.

One C-8A converted into a quiet short-haul research aircraft.

Scaled Composites describe it as a "high-altitude research aircraft".

It was intended both as a racer and as an aerodynamic research aircraft.

The Vertol VZ-2 was a research aircraft developed in the late 1950s.

The scientists also determined the fate of most of those gas and oil compounds using atmospheric chemistry data collected by a research aircraft.