For Release: July 30, 1996
Don Nolan-Proxmire, Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Phone: 202-358-1983
Michael Mewhinney, NASA Ames Research Center
Phone: 415-604-3937
Fred Brown, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
Phone: 805-258-2663
Keith Henry, NASA Langley Research Center
Phone: 757-864-6120
Lori Rachul, NASA Lewis Research Center
Phone: 216-433-8806
RELEASE NO. 96-72
EDITORS' NOTE: NASA to Make News at Oshkosh Friday and
Saturday
NASA will hold two aeronautics-related news briefings at the
annual Experimental Aircraft Association convention in Oshkosh,
Wis., Aug. 2 and Aug. 3.
LoFlyte Program: Friday at 11:30 a.m. CDT in the EAA Press
Tent
NASA and the Air Force will unveil a jet-powered test aircraft
built to demonstrate technologies that will allow an aircraft's
flight control system to learn by mimicking the pilot's flight
inputs. The 8-foot-4-inch remotely-controlled aircraft is a Mach 5
"waverider," a hypersonic configuration that will be flown
subsonically in flight tests this August. The program is managed by
NASA Langley Research Center and the Air Force Wright Laboratory,
with flight testing to be conducted by NASA's Dryden Flight
Research Center. Scheduled briefing participants include Jim Hall,
NTSB chairman.
General Aviation: Saturday at 10 a.m. CDT in the EAA Press
Tent
The NASA-FAA general aviation research and development media
briefing will consist of the following:
o NASA-FAA General Aviation Revitilization Team progress
(Langley & FAA).
o FAA-led Operation Helistar at Atlanta Olympics (FAA &
Langley).
o NASA-led General Aviation Propulsion (GAP) Program (NASA
Lewis).
o NASA-FAA National Design Competition Awards (Langley &
FAA).
Participants will include Bob Whitehead, NASA Associate
Administrator for Aeronautics and George Donohue, FAA Associate
Administrator for Research.
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