NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center operates a Gulfstream G-III aircraft, NASA tail number 804, as an aerodynamics research test bed.
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NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center operates a Gulfstream G-III aircraft, NASA tail number 804, as an aerodynamics research test bed.
Work with the aircraft is funded through NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate as part of the Environmentally Responsible Aviation, or ERA project under the Agency’s Integrated Systems Research Program.
The directorate is leading the push to validate technologies that have matured through foundational research to a point that merits evaluation at the systems level – including flight test at NASA Armstrong. The goal is to explore environmentally friendly aircraft concepts for the future…Learn more