“We believe we have made some groundbreaking progress that will be broadly applicable in the industry.” – Fay Collier, NASA project manager for the Environmentally Responsible Aviation Project PHOTOS: (Above) Members of the X-48C team remove the aircraft from its transport trailer to prepare it for a flight test from the lake bed at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center. (Insets, from left) The X-48C ground control station plays a critical role during test flights; the X-48C is housed in a hangar at Dryden; Rod Wyatt, left, crew chief, Boeing Research & Technology, and Ian Brooks, instrumentation technician, Cranfield Aerospace, weigh the X-48C for post-flight data analysis. BOB FERGUSON/BOEING BOEING FRONTIERS / DECEMBER 2012–JANUARY 2013 29
Frontiers December 2012/January 2013 Issue
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