Dryden Home > Collections > Photo Home > F-111E IPCS > Photo # ECN-4359 |
F-111E IPCS in flight | ||
|
||
Photo Number: | ECN-4359 | |
Photo Date: | January 17, 1975 | |
|
||
Formats: | 558x480 JPEG Image (85 KBytes) 1190x1024 JPEG Image (639 KBytes) 3030x2606 JPEG Image (2,485 KBytes) |
|
|
||
Description: |
This NASA Dryden Flight Research Center photograph taken in 1975 shows the General Dynamic IPCS/F-111E Aardvark with a camouflage paint pattern. This prototype F-111E was used during the flight testing of the Integrated Propulsion Control System (IPCS). The wings of the IPCS/F-111E are swept back to near 60 degrees for supersonic flight. During the same period as F-111 TACT program, an F-111E Aardvark (#67-0115) was flown at the NASA Flight Research Center to investigate an electronic versus a conventional hydro-mechanical controlled engine. The program called integrated propulsion control system (IPCS) was a joint effort by NASA’s Lewis Research Center and Flight Research Center, the Air Force’s Flight Propulsion Laboratory and the Boeing, Honeywell and Pratt & Whitney companies. The left engine of the F-111E was selected for modification to an all electronic system. A Pratt & Whitney TF30-P-9 engine was modified and extensively laboratory, and ground-tested before installation into the F-111E. There were 14 IPCS flights made from 1975 through 1976. The flight demonstration program proved an engine could be controlled electronically, leading to a more efficient Digital Electronic Engine Control System flown in the F-15. |
|
|
||
Keywords: | F-111E IPCS; F-111A; F-111E; Aardvark; General Dynamics F-111A Aardvark; NASA Dryden Flight Research Center; Air Force; Transonic Aircraft Technology; TACT; Mission Adaptive Wing; MAW; Dr. Richard Whitcomb; Supercritical Wing; NASA Langley Research Center;Integrated Propulsion Control System; IPCS; Advanced Fighter Technology Integration; AFTI; Digital Electronic Engine Control; DEEC; Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory; Air Force Flight Propulsion Laboratory; Pratt & Whitney Company; Natural Laminar Flow. |
Dryden Home > Collections > Photo Home > F-111E IPCS > Photo # ECN-4359 |
|
|
Business | Education | History | Gallery | News Room | Organizations | Research | Search | Site Index | |
Last Modified: February 6, 2002 |