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AFTI F-111 Mission Adaptive Wing (MAW) in flight AFTI F-111 Mission Adaptive Wing (MAW) in flight

Photo Number: EC86-33385-002
Photo Date: February 27, 1986

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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.


Keywords: AFTI F-111; Mission Adaptive Wing; MAW


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