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ECN-3945

The General Dynamics TACT/F-111A Aardvark is seen In a banking-turn over the California Mojave desert. This photograph affords a good view of the supercritical wing airfoil shape. Starting in 1971 the NASA Flight Research Center and the Air Force undertook a major research and flight testing program, using F-111A (#63-9778), which would span almost 20 years before completion. Intense interest over the results coming from the NASA F-8 supercritical wing program spurred NASA and the Air Force to modify the General Dynamics F-111A to explore the application of supercritical wing technology to maneuverable military aircraft. This flight program was called Transonic Aircraft Technology (TACT).

Date
1974-02-21
Photographer / author
NASA
Collection
AFRC
Archive
NASA Image and Video Library
Type
photograph

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"ECN-3945" (1974-02-21). NASA/AFRC. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/ECN-3945

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