F-15B, #836 News Archives
- NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center recently conducted a flight test of an airflow-measurement device mounted underneath its F-15B research aircraft in the Rake Airflow Gage Experiment.
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2007
Sonic Boom Tests Schedules (7/07) - Experiments scheduled by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in coming weeks will examine the structural response of modern housing construction to both normal and low-amplitude sonic booms. Called the Housing Structural Response to Sonic Booms Test, the effort is scheduled to occur at Edwards from July 11 to July 20, between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. on test days.
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2006
Gulfstream, NASA Dryden Joust with Supersonic Shockwaves (10/06) - Early fighter pilots were sometimes called knights of the air, a reflection of medieval times when knights used blunted lances in jousting tournaments to dismount competitors from their horses. Now, jet-borne jousting is combating supersonic shockwaves, hopefully enough to lessen the resulting sonic boom heard on the ground.
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2005
Space Shuttle Return to Flight Gets a “LIFT” From NASA Dryden F-15B (2/05) - To help the Space Shuttle safely return to flight, NASA engineers are acquiring data on how insulating foam debris or "divots" behave when these small pieces are shed from the Shuttle's external fuel tank during launch. NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., is conducting a series of flight tests of the divots as part of the Return to Flight team effort. The Lifting Insulating Foam Trajectory (LIFT) flight test series at Dryden is using the center's F-15B Research Testbed aircraft to test these "divots" in a real flight environment at speeds up to about Mach 2, or twice the speed of sound.
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2002
Dryden F-15B Supports F-5 Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration (3/02) - NASA is part of a team seeking quieter sonic booms. NASA's F-15B Research Testbed aircraft recently flew in the supersonic shock wave of a U.S. Navy F-5E in support of the F-5 Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration (SSBD) project, part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Quiet Supersonic Platform (QSP) program.
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Propulsion Flight Research Capabilities Gained with New Fixture (2/02) - NASA Dryden Flight Research Center's new in-house designed Propulsion Flight Test Fixture (PFTF) is an airborne engine test facility that allows engineers to glean actual flight data on small experimental engines that would otherwise have to be gathered from traditional wind tunnels, ground test stands or laboratory setups.
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2001
Flight Experiment Demonstrates Improved Test Method (5/01) - A flight experiment called the Aerostructures Test Wing (ATW) conducted at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., successfully demonstrated a new software data analysis tool, the flutterometer, which is designed to increase the efficiency of flight flutter testing.
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