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F-111 AFTI/MAW cockpit instrument right side panel F-111 AFTI/MAW cockpit instrument right side panel

Photo Number: EC88-0052-1
Photo Date: March 29, 1988

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Photo
Description:

View of the right cockpit of the F-111 MAW aircraft. Unlike most fighter aircraft of the time, the F-111 had side-by-side seating. The pilot sat on the left side, and the weapons systems officer on the right. Both had control sticks to fly the aircraft.


Project
Description:
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.

NASA Photo by: Susan Bledsoe

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


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