Detail View: NASA Dryden Flight Research Center Collection:
|
Title:
|
This NASA Dryden F/A-18 is participating in the Automated Aerial Refueling (AAR) project. F/A-18 (No. 847) is acting as an in-flight refueling tanker in the study.
|
|
Photo Description:
|
NASA Dryden's Automated Aerial Refueling (AAR) project is evaluating the capability of an F/A-18A aircraft as an in-flight refueling tanker with the objective of developing analytical models for an automated aerial refueling system for unmanned air vehicles. The F/A-18 "tanker" aircraft (No. 847) is undergoing flight test envelope expansion with an aerodynamic pod containing air-refueling equipment carried beneath the fuselage. The second aircraft (No. 843) is flying as the receiver aircraft during the study to assess the free-stream hose and drogue dynamics on the F/A-18A.
|
|
Photo Date:
|
December 19, 2002
|
|
NASA Photo by:
|
Lori Losey
|
|
facet_where:
|
Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC)
|
|
facet_when:
|
December 19, 2002
|
|
facet_when_year:
|
2002
|
|
Photo Number:
|
EC02-0294-2
|
|
UID:
|
SPD-DRYDEN-EC02-0294-2
|
|
original url:
|
http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/AAR/HTML/EC02-0294-2.html
|