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Donald Nolan
Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, Calif.
(Phone: 805/258-3447)
RELEASE: 93-115
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Dryden will install two F-100-229 Pratt & Whitney engines, the
vectoring nozzles and an advanced Vehicle Management System
computer to modify the aircraft to the ACTIVE program
configuration.
The F-15, on loan from the U.S. Air Force, was flown to Dryden
from the McDonnell Douglas plant in St. Louis by NASA research
pilot Jim Smolka and McDonnell Douglas pilot Stephen Herlt.
The U.S. Air Force used the F-15 from 1985 to 1991 in a test
program to prove technologies for short take off and landing and
"up-and-away" maneuvering of military aircraft.
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