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Autonomous Formation Flight (AFF)
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Engineers and research pilots involved in NASA Dryden's Autonomous Formation Flight Project explored wingtip vortex energy with a pair of F/A-18s. The airflow from the wingtips of an aircraft can provide energy to another aircraft flying in an optimum position behind the leader. The goal of this project was to demonstrate 10 percent fuel savings of the trailing aircraft.
AFF Project Home Page
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| DFRC Photo # |
Photo Date |
Image Description |
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Autonomous Formation Flight (AFF) Photo Collection Contact Sheet |
| EC01-0328-3 |
November 9, 2001 |
Smoke generators show the twisting paths of wingtip vortices behind two NASA Dryden F/A-18 jets used in the Autonomous Formation Flight (AFF) program |
| EC01-0328-4 |
November 9, 2001 |
This unique view, looking directly up at two NASA Dryden F/A-18's used in the Autonomous Formation Flight (AFF) program, was captured by Carla Thomas from another F-18 flying safety/chase. |
| EC01-0328-11 |
November 9, 2001 |
Smoke generators show the twisting paths of wingtip vortices behind two NASA Dryden F/A-18's used in the Autonomous Formation Flight (AFF) program during flight #743. |
| EC01-0328-12 |
November 9, 2001 |
Smoke generators show the twisting paths of wingtip vortices behind two NASA Dryden F/A-18's used in the Autonomous Formation Flight (AFF) program during flight #743. |
| EC01-0328-17 |
November 9, 2001 |
Smoke generators show the twisting paths of wingtip vortices behind two NASA Dryden F/A-18's used in the Autonomous Formation Flight (AFF) program during flight #743. |
| EC01-0328-28 |
November 9, 2001 |
Smoke generators show the twisting paths of wingtip vortices behind two NASA Dryden F/A-18's used in the Autonomous Formation Flight (AFF) program during flight #743. |
| EC01-0267-1 |
September 20, 2001 |
These two NASA F/A-18 aircraft are flying a test point for the Autonomous Formation Flight project over California's Mojave Desert. |
| EC01-0267-2 |
September 20, 2001 |
These two NASA F/A-18 aircraft are participating in the Autonomous Formation Flight mission over California's Mojave Desert. |
| EC01-0267-4 |
September 20, 2001 |
Flying an Autonomous Formation Flight mission, two F/A-18s from the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, gain altitude near Rogers Dry Lake. |
| EC01-0267-6 |
September 20, 2001 |
Two NASA Dryden F/A-18's land on the Edwards Air Force Base runway after completion of an Autonomous Formation Flight (AFF) mission. |
| EC01-0050-9 |
February 21, 2001 |
Two F/A-18B aircraft involved in the AFF program return to base in close formation with the autonomous function disengaged. |
| EC01-0050-17 |
February 21, 2001 |
Two F/A-18B aircraft involved in the AFF program return to base in close formation with the autonomous function disengaged. |
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