NASA's F-15B conducts a local Mach investigation flight over California's Mojave Desert.
NASA's F-15B Research Testbed aircraft flew instrumentation in June 2004 called the Local Mach Investigation (LMI), designed to gather local airflow data for future research projects using the aircraft's Propulsion Flight Test Fixture (PFTF). The PFTF is the black rectangular fixture attached to the aircraft's belly. The LMI package was located in the orange device attached to the PFTF.
- Date
- 2004-06-04
- Photographer / author
- NASA/Jim Ross
- Collection
- AFRC
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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