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Pathfinder aircraft flight #1

The Pathfinder solar-powered research aircraft settles in for landing on the bed of Rogers Dry Lake at the Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, after a successful test flight Nov. 19, 1996. The ultra-light craft flew a racetrack pattern at low altitudes over the flight test area for two hours while project engineers checked out various systems and sensors on the uninhabited aircraft. The Pathfinder was controlled by two pilots, one in a mobile control unit which followed the craft, the other in a stationary control station. Pathfinder, developed by AeroVironment, Inc., is one of several designs being evaluated under NASA's Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST) program.

Date
1996-11-19
Photographer / author
NASA/Carla Thomas
Collection
AFRC
Archive
NASA Image and Video Library
Type
photograph

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"Pathfinder aircraft flight #1" (1996-11-19). NASA/AFRC/NASA/Carla Thomas. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/EC96-43817-12

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