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CV-990 Landing Systems Research Aircraft (LSRA) during final Space Shuttle tire test CV-990 Landing Systems Research Aircraft (LSRA) during final Space Shuttle tire test
Photo Number: EC95-43230-4
Photo Date: August 12, 1995
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Description: A Convair 990 (CV-990) was used as a Landing Systems Research Aircraft (LSRA) at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, to test space shuttle landing gear and braking systems as part of NASA's effort to upgrade and improve space shuttle capabilities. The first flight at Dryden of the CV-990 with shuttle test components occurred in April 1993, and tests continued into August 1995, when this photo shows a test of the shuttle tires. The purpose of this series of tests was to determine the performance parameters and failure limits of the tires. This particular landing was on the dry lakebed at Edwards, but other tests occurred on the main runway there.

The CV-990, built in 1962 by the Convair Division of General Dynamics Corp., Ft. Worth, Texas, served as a research aircraft at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, before it came to Dryden.
Keywords: Convair 990; CV-990; CV 990; LSRA; Landing Systems Research Aircraft; space shuttle; tire; tires

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