NASA F/A-18 Towed At Sunrise for Flight
A NASA F/A-18 is towed to the apron at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California during sunrise over Rogers Dry Lake. The F/A-18 was used to test a transmitter for an air navigation system, called the Airborne Location Integrating Geospatial Navigation System, or ALIGNS. This system, designed to allow pilots to position their aircraft at precise distances to each other, will be critical for acoustic validation efforts of NASA's next supersonic X-plane, the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology.
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NASA ID
AFRC2020-0082-04
Date Created
July 31, 2020
Center
AFRC
Media Type
image
Photographer
NASA/Lauren Hughes
Location
AFRC
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