Tag: experimental aircraft
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When NASA Dropped Experimental Aircraft From a B-52 to Help Shape the Space Shuttle
In 1966, NASA research pilot Milt Thompson sat inside one of the most unusual aircraft ever flown — the M2-F2 “heavyweight” lifting body research vehicle. With its broad, rounded fuselage and almost nonexistent conventional wings, the M2-F2 looked more like a spacecraft than an airplane. And that was exactly the point. NASA researchers were exploring…
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A Van’s RV-7 Flipped Over Upon Landing At Jaffrey Airport, N.H. Both Occupants Were Injured
Two were injured Thursday (May 21st) when a small plane crashed at Jaffrey Airport, prompting a large emergency response. At just before noon on Thursday, fire, ambulance and police crews responded to the Silver Ranch Airpark for a report of a plane crash, where an RV-7, a small, home-built kit plane, had crashed and rolled,…
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