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F-15B During ACTIVE Project Flight

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Sep 28, 2009
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F-15B Advanced Control Technology for Integrated Vehicles
NASA's F-15B research aircraft flew over the desert near Boron, CA, as it headed back to NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center following an Advanced Control Technology for Integrated Vehicles (ACTIVE) research flight.

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Project: Advanced Control Technology for Integrated Vehicles (ACTIVE)
NASA’s F-15B #837 research aircraft flew over the desert near Boron, CA, as it headed back to NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center following an ACTIVE research flight. A recent flight research project at Dryden, ACTIVE employed thrust-vectoring of engine exhaust and an advanced control system to develop technology to improve cruise and maneuvering capabilities of future aircraft at subsonic and supersonic speeds.

The ACTIVE F-15B (Serial #71-0290) incorporated engine exhaust nozzles developed by Pratt and Whitney which could vector up to 20 degrees in pitch and yaw, along with close-coupled canards ahead of the wings, to improve performance and maneuvering ability.Oct 1996NASA Photo / Jim Ross› F-15 ACTIVE Project Description