Armstrong Flight Research Center
The NASA Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) is an aeronautical research center operated by NASA. Its primary campus is located inside Edwards Air Force Base in California and is considered NASA's premier site for aeronautical research. AFRC operates some of the most advanced aircraft in the world and is known for many aviation firsts, including supporting the first crewed airplane to exceed the speed of sound in level flight (Bell X-1), highest speed by a crewed, powered aircraft (North American X-15), the first pure digital fly-by-wire aircraft (F-8 DFBW), and many others. AFRC operates a second site next to Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, known as Building 703, once the former Rockwell International/North American Aviation production facility. There, AFRC houses and operates several of NASA's Science Mission Directorate aircraft including SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy), a DC-8 Flying Laboratory, a Gulfstream C-20A UAVSAR and ER-2 High Altitude Platform. As of 2023, Bradley Flick is the center's director.Established as the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Muroc Flight Test Unit (1946), the center was subsequently known as the NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station (1949), the NACA High-Speed Flight Station (1954), the NASA High-Speed Flight Station (1958) and the NASA Flight Research Center (1959). On 26 March 1976, the center was renamed the NASA Ames-Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC) after Hugh L. Dryden, a prominent aeronautical engineer who died in office as NASA's deputy administrator in 1965 and Joseph Sweetman Ames, who was an eminent physicist, and served as president of Johns Hopkins University. The facility took its current name on 1 March 2014, honoring Neil Armstrong, a former test pilot at the center and the first human being to walk on the Moon.
AFRC was the home of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), a modified Boeing 747 designed to carry a Space Shuttle orbiter back to Kennedy Space Center if one landed at Edwards.
The center long operated the oldest B-52 Stratofortress bomber, a B-52B (dubbed Balls 8 after its tail number, 008) that had been converted to drop test aircraft. 008 dropped many supersonic test vehicles, from the X-15 to its last research program, the hypersonic X-43A, powered by a Pegasus rocket. Retired in 2004, the aircraft is on display near Edwards' North Gate. Provided by Wikipedia
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Flight measured and calculated exhaust jet conditions for an F100 engine in an F-15 airplane by Hernández, Francisco J.
Edwards, Calif. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center, Dryden Flight Research Facility, 1988“…Dryden Flight Research Facility…”
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User's manual for AeroFcn : a FORTRAN program to compute aerodynamic parameters by Conley, Joseph L.
Edwards, Calif. : [Springfield, Va.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center, Dryden Flight Research Facility ; [For sale by the National Technical Information Service], 1992“…Dryden Flight Research Facility…”
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Preliminary flight evaluation of F100 engine model derivative airstart capability in an F-15 airplane by Cho, Tony K.
Edwards, Calif. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center, Dryden Flight Research Facility, 1984“…Dryden Flight Research Facility…”
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X-33 integrated test facility extended range simulation by Sharma, Ashley
Edwards, Calif. : [Springfield, Va.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Dryden Flight Research Center ; [National Technical Information Service, distributor], 1998“…Dryden Flight Research Facility…”
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Measured and predicted pressure distributions on the AFTI/F-111 mission adaptive wing by Webb, Lannie D.
Edwards, Calif. : [Springfield, Va.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center, Dryden Flight Research Facility ; [For sale by the National Technical Information Service], 1988“…Dryden Flight Research Facility…”
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Comparison of X-31 flight and ground-based yawing moment asymmetries at high angles of attack by Cobleigh, Brent R.
Edwards, Calif. : Hanover, Md. :; Edwards, Calif. : Hanover, MD : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Dryden Flight Research Center ; Available from NASA Center for AeroSpace Information (CASI), 2001“…Dryden Flight Research Facility…”
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Effects of update and refresh rates on flight simulation visual displays by Kellogg, Gary V.
Edwards, Calif.: [Springfield, Va. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center, Dryden Flight Research Facility ; For sale by the National Technical Information Service, 1988“…Dryden Flight Research Facility…”
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Thermal stress analysis of space orbiter subjected to reentry aerodynamic heating by Ko, William L.
Edwards, Calif. : [Springfield, Va. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center, Dryden Flight Research Facility ; For sale by the National Technical Information Service], 1987“…Dryden Flight Research Facility…”
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Real-time flight test data distribution and display by Nesel, Michael C.
Edwards, Calif. : [Springfield, Va. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center, Dryden Flight Research Facility ; For sale by the National Technical Information Service, 1988“…Dryden Flight Research Facility…”
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A knowledge-based system design/information tool for aircraft flight control systems by Mackall, Dale A.
Edwards, Calif. : [Springfield, Va.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center, Dryden Flight Research Facility ; [For sale by the National Technical Information Service], 1989“…Dryden Flight Research Facility…”
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Accuracies of Southwell and force/stiffness methods in the prediction of buckling strength of hypersonic aircraft wing tubular panels by Ko, William L.
Edwards, Calif. : [Springfield, Va. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center, Dryden Flight Research Facility ; For sale by the National Technical Information Service], 1987“…Dryden Flight Research Facility…”
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X-29A aircraft structural loads flight testing
Edwards, Calif. : [Springfield, Va.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center, Dryden Flight Research Facility ; [For sale by the National Technical Information Service], 1989“…Dryden Flight Research Facility…”
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Application of flight systems methodologies to the validation of knowledge-based systems by Duke, Eugene L.
Edwards, Calif. : [Springfield, Va.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center, Dryden Flight Research Facility ; [For sale by the National Technical Information Service], 1988“…Dryden Flight Research Facility…”
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The constant current loop : a new paradigm for resistance signal conditioning
Edwards, Calif. : [Springfield, Va.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center, Dryden Flight Research Facility ; [For sale by the National Technical Information Service], 1992“…Dryden Flight Research Facility…”
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Measured and predicted structural behavior of the MiMAT tailored composite wing by Nelson, Lawrence H.
Edwards, Calif. : [Springfield, Va.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center, Dryden Flight Research Facility ; [National Technical Information Service, distributor], 1987“…Dryden Flight Research Facility…”
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Flight testing and simulation of an F-15 airplane using throttles for flight control by Burcham, Frank W.
Edwards, Calif. : [Springfield, Va.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Dryden Flight Research Facility ; [For sale by the National Technical Information Service], 1992“…Dryden Flight Research Facility…”
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Exhaust-gas pressure and temperature survey of F404-GE-400 turbofan engine by Walton, James T.
Edwards, Calif. : [Springfield, Va.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center, Dryden Flight Research Facility ; [For sale by the National Technical Information Service], 1986“…Dryden Flight Research Facility…”
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Fault detection and accommodation testing on an F100 engine in an F-15 airplane by Myers, Lawrence P.
Edwards, Calif. : [Springfield, Va.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center, Dryden Flight Research Facility ; [For sale by the National Technical Information Service], 1985“…Dryden Flight Research Facility…”
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Multiaxis thrust vectoring using axisymmetric nozzles and postexit vanes on an F/A-18 configuration vehicle
Edwards, Calif. : [Springfield, Va.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center, Dryden Flight Research Facility ; [For sale by the National Technical Information Service], 1991“…Dryden Flight Research Facility…”
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Software control and system configuration management : a systems-wide approach by Petersen, Kevin L.
Edwards, Calif. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center, Dryden Flight Research Facility, 1984“…Dryden Flight Research Facility…”
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