Dryden Flight Research Center

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Dryden Flight Research Center

• Testing the boundaries of flight

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Dryden Flight Research Center
NASAs primary installation for Flight Research
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Current Flight Research
Dryden Flight Research Center

• Environmental Research And Sensor Technology
  Program (ERAST)

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Current Flight Research
Dryden Flight Research Center

• Environmental Research And Sensor Technology
  Program (ERAST)

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Current Flight Research
Dryden Flight Research Center

• APEX

Sailplane released by a balloon at an altitude of
30 kilometers (100,000 feet)

• Conducting ultra-high altitude research in
• Atmospheric sampling
• Military surveillance

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Current Flight Research
Dryden Flight Research Center
F-15-B Research Testbed

• Flight Test capabilities
• Aerodynamics
• Instrumentation
• Propulsion

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Current Flight Research
Dryden Flight Research Center
F-18 Systems Research Aircraft

• Subsonic
• Supersonic
• Hypersonic
• Space applications

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Current Flight Research
Dryden Flight Research Center

• Revolutionary Concepts in Aeronautics (RevCon)

• Vehicle studies include
• Supersonic and subsonic
• Rotorcraft
• Advanced military aircraft

Revolutionary not just evolutionary
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Current Flight Research
Dryden Flight Research Center

• X-40A Space Maneuvering Vehicle
• Unpiloted prototype of the X-37 space-return
  vehicle

• Demonstrating orbital and reentry technologies
• Increase safety
• Increase reliability
• Reduce costs by ten-fold

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Current Flight Research
Dryden Flight Research Center

• X-43 Hyper-X
• Air-breathing hypersonic flight at speeds of Mach
  7 to Mach 10

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Dryden Flight Research Center

• From breaking the sound barrier
• to testing the future of space vehicles