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Photo Number: ECN-2478
Photo Date: August 9, 1970

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The C-140 JetStar was reconfigured as the General Purpose Airborne Simulator (GPAS) to simulate the flight characteristics of other aircraft. The JetStar was used for research for supersonic transports, general aviation aircraft, and as a training support aircraft for the Space Shuttle Approach and Landing tests at Dryden Flight Research Center (under different names) at Edwards, CA, in 1977. One of the engineers on the GPAS program was Ken Szalai, who later became Dryden's director from 1990 to August 1998.

Project
Description:
This C-140 JetStar was flown by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, from 1964 to 1989 in a variety of projects applicable to civilian aircraft. Built by Lockheed, the aircraft-NASA 814-was used in a laminar flow study to help develop methods of designing more efficient aircraft wings.

The JetStar was later used as a testbed to investigate acoustic characteristics of a series of subscale advanced design propellors which featured blades that curved rearward. The aircraft was also used as a support vehicle during the Space Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests at Dryden in 1977, and for a variety of general purpose airborne simulation studies related to general aviation aircraft.


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Keywords: C-140; JetStar; 814; Lockheed; approach and landing tests; ALT; general purpose airborne simulator; GPAS; laminar flow; Ken Szalai


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