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Two chase aircraft, a Learjet 23 and a Cessna T-37, in formation with a NASA Boeing 747 905 as part of a wing vortex experiment.. A chase plane is an aircraft that "chases" a "subject" aircraft, spacecraft or rocket, for the purposes of making real-time observations and taking air-to-air photographs and video of the subject vehicle during flight.
NASA one was a Gulfstream G-III with a seating capacity of 12 people. The jet is stored in an FAA hangar along with 3 other government planes. [32] NASA now shares a plane with FAA. Gulfstream X-54: Research, X-Planes, Proposed Armstrong Flight Research Center: Hawker Siddeley P.1127. V/STOL Retired Langley Research Center: Kreider-Reisner XC ...
X-15 Flight 3-65-97 Michael J. Adams: During X-15 Flight 191, Adams' seventh flight, the plane had an electrical problem followed by control problems at the apogee of its flight. The pilot may also have become disoriented. During reentry from a 266,000 ft (50.4 mile, 81.1 km) apogee, the X-15 yawed and went into a spin at Mach 5.
Data from Boeing.com General characteristics Crew: None Length: 22 ft 6 in (6.86 m) Wingspan: 15 ft 7 in (4.75 m) Height: 4 ft 4 in (1.31 m) Empty weight: 3,370 lb (1,529 kg) Gross weight: 4,030 lb (1,828 kg) Powerplant: 1 × General Electric J85-21 turbojet Performance Maximum speed: 1,218 mph (1,960 km/h, 1,058 kn) Maximum speed: Mach 1.6 Gallery HiMAT aircraft at the National Air and Space ...
The program was a joint effort between NASA's Langley Research Center, Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, California and Northrop Grumman. The program became, at that time (2003), [1] the most extensive study on the sonic boom. After measuring the 1,300 recordings, some taken inside the shock wave by a chase plane, the ...
Test pilot Stuart Present ejects safely from the Lunar Landing Training Vehicle. Neil Armstrong also made such an ejection. (NASA) Spaceflight-related accidents and incidents during assembly, testing, and preparation for flight of crewed and uncrewed spacecraft have occasionally resulted in injuries or the loss of craft since the earliest days of space programs.
An engine failure forced Jack McKay, a NASA research pilot, to make an emergency landing at Mud Lake, Nye County, Nevada, [140] in the second North American X-15, AF Ser. No. 56-6671 on flight 2-31-52. The aircraft's landing gear collapsed and the X-15 flipped over on its back.
N833NA, the Boeing 720 aircraft involved in the test. NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) conducted a joint program for the acquisition, demonstration, and validation of technology for the improvement of transport aircraft occupant crash survivability using a large, four-engine, remotely piloted transport airplane in a controlled impact demonstration (CID).