NASA's F/A-18 Hornet is seen here in a banked turn over Rogers Dry Lake in the Mojave desert on an early research flight.
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NASA’s F/A-18 Hornet is seen here in a banked turn over Rogers Dry Lake in the Mojave desert on an early research flight. It was flown by NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, in a multi-year, joint NASA/DOD/industry project, the former Navy fighter was modified into a unique Systems Research Aircraft (SRA) to investigate a host of new technologies in flight controls, airdata sensing, and advanced computing.July 12, 1993NASA Photo / › F-18 SRA Project Description