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CV-990 LSRA CV-990 LSRA
Photo Number: EC89-0042-11
Photo Date: March 6, 1989
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Description: NASA 710, a Convair 990 transport aircraft formerly used for medium altitude atmospheric research, cruises over the Mojave Desert near NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. The flight was a final speed calibration run prior to the start of extensive modifications that turned the aircraft into a landing systems research aircraft to test and evaluate brakes and landing gear systems on space shuttles and also conventional aircraft.

Research flights with the aircraft began in April of 1993. Testing of shuttle components lasted into fiscal year 1995.
Keywords: CV-990; Landing Systems Research Aircraft; LSRA; Convair; 710; space shuttle; STS; landing gear; brakes speed calibration

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