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NASA F-15B #836 in flight with Quiet Spike attached

NASA F-15B #836 in flight with Quiet Spike attached

NASA F-15B #836 in flight with Quiet Spike attached. The project seeks to verify the structural integrity of the multi-segmented, articulating spike attachment designed to reduce and control a sonic boom.

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ED06-0187-12

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October 3, 2006

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AFRC

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NASA/Jim Ross

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AFRC

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Approaching the runway after the first evaluation flight of the Quiet Spike project, NASA's F-15B testbed aircraft cruises over Roger's Dry Lakebed

Aug 10, 2006

Some of the test team for the Gulfstream Quiet Spike project assembled for a group photo on May 3, 2006

May 3, 2006

NASA's F-15B testbed aircraft in flight during the first evaluation flight of the joint NASA/Gulfstream Quiet Spike project