One of NASA's two F-15 research aircraft gets refueled over Lake Isabella from a USAF KC-135 tanker while NASA's other F-15 flies chase alongside.
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Project: Intelligent Flight Control System (IFCS)
One of NASA’s two F-15 research aircraft gets refueled over Lake Isabella from a USAF KC-135 tanker while NASA’s other F-15 flies chase alongside. F-15B #837 was the platform for the IFCS flight research project at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, established to exploit a revolutionary technological breakthrough in aircraft flight controls that can efficiently optimize aircraft performance in normal and failure conditions.July 22, 2005
NASA Photo / Carla Thomas
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