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When NASA tested a plane with a pivoting wing
27 Jan 2023 10:54 GMT
… a kind, but the NASA AD-1 is undoubtedly one of them … “Thinking Obliquely,” a NASA book about the AD-1 program.
The design … I think the AD-1 was like other experimental NASA planes, in … to fix.”
Top image: The NASA AD-1 oblique wing research aircraft performs …
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Crazy But True: How NASA Tested Pivoting Wing Technology
03 Feb 2023 01:38 GMT
… acquired funding and made the AD-1 aircraft.
Details on the first … 18 jet engines allowed the AD-1 to weigh just 1,500 … Iv-olga / Shutterstock
NASA’s AD-1 takes flight
On December 21 … . Thomas C. McMurtry, a NASA research pilot, was understandably nervous …
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Por qué la NASA puso a prueba un avión con esta curiosa ala que gira
28 Jan 2023 03:51 GMT
… su especie, pero el AD-1 de la NASA es sin duda uno … ”, un libro de la NASA sobre el programa AD-1.
El diseño corrió … movimiento del ala en el AD-1. Crédito: NASA
Prueba de concepto
El … . Jones posa con el AD-1. Crédito: NASA
Futuro oblicuo
Durante el programa …
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NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center Remembers Pilots Who Lost Their Lives
31 Jan 2020 05:40 GMT
… a P-63A airplane. (NASA image)
(NASA) – NASA’s Day of Remembrance … the same solemn day, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in … chief research pilot at the NASA Flight Research Center during … NASA Armstrong.
Richard E. “Dick” Gray, seen above with the AD-1 …
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NASA just released hundreds of rare flight test videos. We found the best ones
05 Dec 2017 01:50 GMT
… the ground right. However, NASA maintains that their studies of …
Right around the 1990s, NASA started looking into the feasibility … glide tests and transport missions. NASA joke: The unit that … HERE. BLACK SIDE DOWN.”
The AD-1
Developed at the height of …
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NASA just released hundreds of rare flight test videos. We found the best ones
03 Aug 2017 15:05 GMT
… the ground right. However, NASA maintains that their studies of …
Right around the 1990s, NASA started looking into the feasibility … glide tests and transport missions. NASA joke: The unit that … HERE. BLACK SIDE DOWN.”
The AD-1
Developed at the height of …
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Top 5: The World's Weirdest Military Aircraft
16 Jun 2023 12:18 GMT
… wing.” One such example is NASA’s prototype “flying bathtub,” the … research aircraft initially built for NASA to further investigate vertical … X-36
Mil V-12
NASA AD-1
NASA Hyper III
Nord 1500 … Yak-38U
Sources: Lockheed Martin, NASA, US DoD, Boeing, Military …
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Prolific research pilot’s varied career is honored
20 Aug 2024 15:43 GMT
… long piloting career, former NASA research pilot Tom McMurtry flew … time for pension purposes.
Joining NASA Dryden (now Armstrong) Flight … flight in 1975, and the AD-1 Oblique Wing, a plane … .
Following his retirement from NASA, Tom continued the business …
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AV aviation fixture spotlighted at Plane Crazy event
15 Aug 2024 15:03 GMT
… to join what is now NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center ( … than three decades as a NASA research pilot, McMurtry piloted … unique research aircraft, including the AD-1 Oblique Wing, the F-8 … launch site.
After retiring from NASA, McMurtry’s flying career …
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Incredible plan for ‘wonky wing’ supersonic plane of the future that ‘defies nature’ with mind-bending design
11 Jan 2024 19:08 GMT
… todayCredit: YouTube/@Mustard
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NASA began testing and conducting extensive … the 1950's by NASA engineer Robert Thomas Jones, but … .
In 1979, the NASA Ames-Dryden-1 (AD-1) - a subsonic, human …