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| AFTI F-111 Mission Adaptive Wing (MAW) in flight | ||
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| Photo Number: | EC86-33385-002 | |
| Photo Date: | February 27, 1986 | |
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| Formats: | 515x480 JPEG Image (90 KBytes) 1099x1024 JPEG Image (418 KBytes) 3000x2793 JPEG Image (3,499 KBytes) |
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| Description: |
This photograph shows a modified General Dynamics AFTI/F-111A Aardvark in flight with supercritical mission adaptive wings (MAW) installed. With the phasing out of the TACT program came a renewed effort by the Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory to extend supercritical wing technology to a higher level of performance. In the early 1980s the supercritical wing on the F-111A aircraft was replaced with a wing built by Boeing Aircraft Company System called a “mission adaptive wing” (MAW), and a joint NASA and Air Force program called Advanced Fighter Technology Integration (AFTI) was born. |
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| Keywords: | AFTI F-111; Mission Adaptive Wing; MAW | |
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Last Modified: February 6, 2002 |
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