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DC-8 Airborne Laboratory arrival at NASA Dryden
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DC-8 Airborne Laboratory arrival at NASA Dryden

NASA's DC-8 Airborne Science platform landed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, to join the fleet of aircraft at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center. The white aircraft with a blue stripe running horizontally from the nose to the tail is shown with its main landing gear just above the runway. The former airliner is a "dash-72" model and has a range of 5,400 miles. The craft can stay airborne for 12 hours and has an operational speed range between 300 and 500 knots. The research flights are made at between 500 and 41,000 feet. The aircraft can carry up to 30,000 lbs of research/science payload equipment installed in 15 mission-definable spaces.

Date
1997-12-29
Photographer / author
NASA/Tony Landis
Collection
AFRC
Archive
NASA Image and Video Library
Type
photograph

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"DC-8 Airborne Laboratory arrival at NASA Dryden" (1997-12-29). NASA/AFRC/NASA/Tony Landis. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/EC97-44358-002

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