PAIR OF NASA PLANES LEAVE EDWARDS AFB FOR MUSEUMS.Byline: Daily News EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE Edwards Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 301,000 acres (121,805 hectares), S Calif., NE of Lancaster; est. 1933. It is one of the largest air force bases in the United States and has the world's longest runway. - Two unique NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. aircraft left Edwards Air Force Base for new homes in museums. Departing partially disassembled on big rigs, the Dryden Flight Research Center's SR-71B Blackbird will go to a Michigan museum, and the F-18 High Angle-of-Attack Research Vehicle will go to a museum in Virginia, officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), civilian agency of the U.S. federal government with the mission of conducting research and developing operational programs in the areas of space exploration, artificial satellites (see satellite, artificial), said. The SR-71B was one of only two SR-71s with a second cockpit for training pilots. It served NASA as a trainer as well as for some high-speed research, from 1991 to 1999, after being retired from the Air Force. The F-18 HARV HARV High Alpha Research Vehicle (NASA test plane) HARV High Altitude Research Vehicle HARV High Altitude Reconnaissance Vehicle provided data on high-angle-of-attack flight - meaning flight with the plane's nose held as much as 70 degrees from horizontal. The HARV flew 385 research flights at Dryden from 1987 through 1996. The SR-71B is destined des·tine tr.v. des·tined, des·tin·ing, des·tines 1. To determine beforehand; preordain: a foolish scheme destined to fail; a film destined to become a classic. 2. for the Kalamazoo Air Zoo museum in Kalamazoo, Mich. The F-18 is going to the Virginia Air and Space Center in Hampton, Va. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: The SR-71B - one of two Blackbird trainers - leaves Edwards Air Force Base for its new home in Michigan while NASA's F-18 HARV is seen in the background. NASA |
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