WRIGHT FLYER REPLICA MAY TEST WINGS AT NASA DRYDEN FLIGHT RESEARCH CENTER December 17, 2001 Release: 01-76 Printer Friendly Version
Engineers from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) are talking with their counterparts at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center about flying a replica of the Wright Brothers' first airplane at Dryden's facility on Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert.
The Wright Brothers made history by flying for the first time on this date in 1903. AIAA's Los Angeles section has undertaken the Wright Flyer project to create and fly a replica of that first airplane. Their project has already involved wind tunnel tests at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. Dryden and Ames are two of four NASA Centers involved in cutting-edge aeronautical research.
At Dryden, project manager Frank Cutler is NASA's point of contact for the Wright replica venture. Cutler says the flight tests could take place at Dryden by mid-2002.
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