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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 ...
Business jet of the NASA Administrator: Active (1) 2003 - 2008 NA 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 ...
Townspeople who heard the weather-plane crash are foiled at rescue attempts by searing heat. Nine charred bodies were pulled from the wreckage. The plane, on a routine weather mission, had been aloft from Yokota Air Base for about an hour. [32] [33] B-50D-105-BO, 48-122, converted to WB-50D. Crashed with 56th WRS. [34] 22 September
Investigators head into the debris field at the site of a commercial plane crash near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, September 11, 2001. The crash is one of four planes that were hijacked as part of a ...
STS-3 was NASA's third Space Shuttle mission, and was the third mission for the Space Shuttle Columbia. It launched on March 22, 1982, and landed eight days later on March 30, 1982. It launched on March 22, 1982, and landed eight days later on March 30, 1982.
The pilot, 2nd Lt Bruce D. Umland, 23, of Minneapolis and student-navigator 2nd Lt. Gregory Johnson, 22, of Duluth, Minnesota safely ejected from the plane before it crashed. The crash occurred on National Forest property about 12-1/2 miles north of Grass Valley, California (between Highway 49 and Marysville Rd) on a Tuesday morning.
The U.S. scrambled F-16s in a supersonic chase of a light aircraft with an unresponsive pilot that violated airspace around Washington D.C. and later crashed into the mountains of Virginia ...
Clifton Curtis Williams Jr. (September 26, 1932 – October 5, 1967), was an American naval aviator, test pilot, mechanical engineer, major in the United States Marine Corps, and NASA astronaut, who was killed in a plane crash; he never went into space.