Date: 21 May 2008
From: StargateAddictSL
The NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, used an F-18 Hornet fighter aircraft as its High Angle-of-Attack alpha Research Vehicle HARV in a three-phased flight research program lasting from April 1987 until September 1996. The aircraft completed 385 research flights and demonstrated stabilized flight at angles of attack between 65 and 70 degrees using thrust vectoring vanes, a research flight control system, and eventually forebody strakes hinged structures on the forward side of the fuselage to provide control by interacting with vortices that are generated at high angles of attack, and thus create side forces . - dfrc.nasa.gov Gallery Movie F-18HARV index.html HARV - High Alpha Research Vehicle AoA - Angle-of-Attack
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