A modified General Dynamics AFTI/F-111A Aardvark with supercritical mission adaptive wings (MAW) installed is shown. The aircraft is in a banking turn toward Rogers Dry Lake and Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
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A modified General Dynamics AFTI/F-111A Aardvark with supercritical mission adaptive wings (MAW) installed is shown. The aircraft is in a banking turn toward Rogers Dry Lake and Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
With the phasing out of the TACT project came a renewed effort by the Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory to extend supercritical wing technology to a higher level of performance. In the early 1980s the supercritical wing on the F-111A aircraft was replaced with a wing built by The Boeing Aircraft Company called a “mission adaptive wing” (MAW), and a joint NASA and Air Force project called Advanced Fighter Technology Integration (AFTI) was born.March 27, 1986NASA Photo / › F-111 AFTI Project Description