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F-15B Aerostructures Test Wing Experiment
F-15B Aerostructures Test Wing Experiment

A flight experiment called the Aerostructures Test Wing (ATW) conducted at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, successfully demonstrated…

F-15B Supporting the Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration Project
F-15B Supporting the Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration Project

NASA’s F-15B Research Testbed aircraft recently flew in the supersonic shock wave of a U.S. Navy F-5E in support of…

Propulsion Controlled Aircraft
Propulsion Controlled Aircraft

F-15 Propulsion Controlled Aircraft (PCA) simulation cockpit.

Propulsion Controlled Aircraft
Propulsion Controlled Aircraft

NASA research pilot Gordon Fullerton checked out how the PCA software worked in the multi-engine simulator at NASA Ames before…

Flight Simulators
Flight Simulators

Flight Simulators

F-15B Lands with Quiet Spike
F-15B Lands with Quiet Spike

NASA F-15B #836 landed with Quiet Spike attached. The project sought to verify the structural integrity of the multi-segmented, articulating…

Testing the Structural Integrity of Telescopic ‘Quiet Spike’ Sonic Boom Mitigator
Testing the Structural Integrity of Telescopic ‘Quiet Spike’ Sonic Boom Mitigator

Gulfstream Aerospace and NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center tested the structural integrity of a telescopic ‘Quiet Spike’ sonic boom mitigator…

Quiet Spike Installed on F-15B #836
Quiet Spike Installed on F-15B #836

Gulfstream’s Quiet Spike sonic boom mitigator being installed on NASA DFRC’s F-15B testbed aircraft. The project seeks to verify the…

Ground Vibration Tests for Quiet Spike
Ground Vibration Tests for Quiet Spike

NASA Dryden’s F-15B testbed aircraft with the Gulfstream Quiet Spike sonic boom mitigator attached undergoes ground vibration testing in preparation…