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LSRA taking off |
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Photo Number: |
EC92-12221-1 |
Photo Date: |
December 21, 1992 |
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539x480 JPEG Image (85 KBytes)
1150x1024 JPEG Image (447 KBytes)
3000x2670 JPEG Image (4,246 KBytes)
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Description: |
Taking off on a flight from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, is NASA's Landing Systems Research Aircraft (LSRA), a modified Convair (CV) 990. A new landing gear test fixture representative of the shuttle's landing gear system had been installed in the lower fuselage of the CV-990 test aircraft between the aircraft's normal main landing gear. Following initial flights, static loads testing and calibration of the test gear were conducted at Dryden. Tests allowed engineers to assess the performance of the space shuttle's main and nose landing gear systems under varying conditions. |
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Keywords: |
CV-990; Convair; Landing Systems Research Aircraft; landing gear; space shuttle |