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ARC-1959-A-24953

Lockheed JF-104A (AF56-745A Tail No. 60745) Starfighter airplane piloted by Fred Drinkwater conducted flight testing that demonstrated steep approaches that were ultimately used by the space shuttle. Steep descent testing, including power-off landing approaches and demonstration of minimum lift-to-drag ratio (L/D) landings came out of the interest in the use of low L/D lifting bodies for recovery to landing from space. Note: Used in publication in Flight Research at Ames; 57 Years of Development and Validation of Aeronautical Technology NASA SP-1998-3300 fig 93

Date
1959-03-19
Photographer / author
Lee Jones
Collection
ARC
Archive
NASA Image and Video Library
Type
photograph

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"ARC-1959-A-24953" (1959-03-19). NASA/ARC/Lee Jones. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/ARC-1959-A-24953

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