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	Dryden Flight Research Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dryden Flight Research Center's fleet of aircraft in 1993.
		Until 2004, Dryden operated the oldest B-52 Stratofortress bomber, a B-52B model which had been converted to drop test aircraft, dubbed 'The High and Mighty One.' It dropped a large number of supersonic test vehicles, ranging from the X-15 to Pegasus rocket boosters.
		The LLRVs, humorously referred to as flying bedsteads (see also Flying bedstead), were used by the FRC, now known as the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., to study and analyze piloting techniques needed to fly and land the Apollo Lunar Module in the moon's airless environment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dryden_Flight_Research_Center (827 words)

	Dryden Flight Research Center
		Dryden's responsibility for flight research includes everything from airplanes that use solar power to fly higher than ever before, to a future "space lifeboat" that could safely return crews to Earth in an emergency.
		With that premise, Dryden engineers, in cooperation with NASA's Ames Research Center, the Boeing Company, and the University of California (UCLA), are collaborating on a sophisticated blend of global positioning system (GPS) technology and inertial navigation gear that promises to give measurements of the relative positions of aircraft in formation with accuracies within six inches.
		Data obtained from the first phase flight series will be used to refine the AAW flight control laws, and after further software development, the second phase of research flights should take place in 2003.
	www.nasatech.com /Spinoff/spinoff2001/dryden.html (1233 words)

	NASA - Flight Research Projects
		A wide range of research activities are in progress at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center at any one point in time, ranging from validation of advanced aeronautical and control systems concepts and atmospheric flight testing of future space-access technology demonstrators to Earth science experiments.
		The F-15B Research Testbed is a modified twin-engine jet fighter that provides NASA, industry, and universities with long-term capability for the efficient flight test of aerodynamic, instrumentation, propulsion, and other flight research experiments.The F-15B Research Testbed is a unique airborne resource, a virtual "flying wind tunnel," among it's many capabilities.
		Research Facilities at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center provide its pilots, engineers, scientists and technicians a unique and highly specialized capability to conduct flight research programs unmatched anywhere in the world.
	www.nasa.gov /centers/dryden/research (957 words)

	NASA Dryden Flight Research Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Dryden Flight Research Center, NASA's premier installation for aeronautical flight research, is NASA's "Center of Excellence" for atmospheric flight operations.
		Since the days of the X-1, the first aircraft to fly faster than the speed of sound, the center has grown in size and significance and is associated with many important milestones in aviation: supersonic and hypersonic flight, wingless lifting bodies, fly-by-wire, supercritical and forward-swept wings and space shuttles.
		Along with research and support aircraft, Dryden assets include a high-temperature and loads-calibration laboratory, aircraft flight-instrumentation capability, a flow-visualization facility to study flow patterns, a data-analysis facility to process flight research data, and remotely piloted vehicle flight research expertise.
	www.edwards.af.mil /partners/docs_html/nasa.html (310 words)

	DRYDEN FLIGHT RESEARCH CENTER
		Dryden uses the SRA to investigate key technologies, including electrically-powered actuators and computer enhancements that ensure new aerospace concepts are transferred to the U.S. aerospace industry.
		This multi-year flight research effort is improving the performance and maneuverability of future civil and military aircraft flying at subsonic and supersonic speeds.
		Flights of Dryden's F/A-18 substantiated a five-fold increase in voice communication range and a major improvement in the quality of radio transmissions from the aircraft when compared with transmissions from the F/A-18's standard blade antenna.
	www.sti.nasa.gov /tto/spinoff1998/ard3.htm (1143 words)

	Dryden Flight Research Center
		Dryden engineers pioneered DFCS, and the 30th anniversary of the first flight of Dryden's F-8 Digital Fly-By-Wire aircraft was May 25, 2002.
		While Dryden is known primarily for its flight test capabilities, closer inspection of these technologies led to the development of an office devoted to the full-time protection and dissemination of these valuable assets.
		The Center is rightly proud of its participation in the solar-powered aircraft Helios prototype, which recently set an altitude record at 96,863 feet and made a run as a candidate for one of aviation's greatest prizes, the Collier Trophy.
	www.sti.nasa.gov /tto/spinoff2002/dryden.html (1178 words)

	ASEE - Resources\Opportunities - Fellowships - NASA Ames Research Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Dryden's facilities include: a 500-mile, high-speed flight corridor for flight testing; the Williams Research Aircraft Integration Facility (RAIF) which accommodates modern, highly integrated aircraft; a thermo-structures research facility; two fully equipped, flight research control rooms with numerous displays for various aeronautical research disciplines; Space Shuttle processing facilities; and a data analysis facility.
		Dryden has five hangars for its research aircraft which currently include: the F-15 ACTIVE and the F-15B Test Bed, the F-18 HARV and the F-18 Systems Research Aircraft, the F-16XL, the SR-71, and a B-52 Flight Research Test Bed aircraft.
		Dryden Flight Research Center is located on Edwards Air Force Base at the western edge of the Mojave Desert about ninety miles north of Los Angeles.
	www.asee.org /resources/fellowships/nsfro/ames.cfm (695 words)

	Dryden Flight Research Center - News Room: News Releases: NASA DRYDEN EXPLORING UAV AERIAL REFUELING TECHNOLOGIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		During the 1990s, the refueling pod was integrated on the newer F/A-18E/F. According to AAR project engineers, the objectives of the recent flights at NASA Dryden are to demonstrate the operational flight envelope and to assess the free-stream hose and drogue dynamics on the earlier model F/A-18s.
		NASA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Naval Air Systems Command, the Naval Air Force – Pacific Fleet, the Canadian Air Force, and aerospace companies Boeing and Northrop Grumman are cooperating to develop a versatile model for the refueling of UAV aircraft.
		Flight research during AFF demonstrated that a 14-percent fuel saving could be achieved by the trailing F/A-18 flying in a precision station-keeping formation within the wingtip vortices of the lead aircraft.
	trc.dfrc.nasa.gov /Newsroom/NewsReleases/2002/02-68.html (394 words)

	Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC)
		DFRC’s origins go back to 1946 when a small team of NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) engineers came to Muroc Army Airfield (now Edwards AFB) to prepare for X-1 tests in a joint NACA-Air Force program.
		Over the years, all of NASA’s high-performance aircraft and flight research vehicles have flown from here including all of the X-planes, the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle or “Flying Bedstead,” and the Space Shuttle prototype Enterprise.
		Most recently, Dryden has been involved in test flights of the X-38 lifeboat for the International Space Station and various solar-powered aircraft.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/D/DFRC.html (266 words)

	NASA chief: Dryden plays pivotal role
		Despite requesting less funding for aeronautics research in his 2006 budget, the president's new vision for space exploration is a redirection of the agency's manned space flight efforts, not its aeronautics or science programs, Griffin said.
		Dryden's aeronautics budget is expected to drop about 20% in the next two years, from $161 million this year to $130 million in 2007, then flattening out at approximately that level through 2010.
		Dryden also likely will play a part in atmospheric testing for the new CEV, seen as a replacement to the aging space shuttle fleet, set for retirement at the end of the decade, once construction of the international space station is complete.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1411019/posts (949 words)

	April 2005 Dryden Highlights NASA Dryden Flight Research Center Edwards, California (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		AAW finished the last research flight Thursday March 31, 2005 at 4:35 P.M. Jointly sponsored and managed by NASA, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and Boeing's Phantom Works, the AAW project evaluated active control of lighter-weight flexible wings for improved maneuverability of high-performance military aircraft.
		Dryden's F-18 AAW jet used conventional control surfaces such as ailerons and leading-edge flaps to aerodynamically induce twist.
		The Dryden Flight Research Center, located 80 miles north of Los Angeles, is NASA's primary installation for atmospheric flight research and test, specializing in flight demonstrations of high-risk, high payoff technologies.
	www.californiaspaceauthority.org /html/press-releasesandletters/pr050406.html (893 words)

	NASA - Dryden Home
		The Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC) is NASA's center for aeronautical flight research and atmospheric flight operations.
		DFRC is chartered to research, develop, verify, and transfer advanced aeronautics, space and related technologies.
		NASA highlighted its aeronautical research capabilities alongside models of the anticipated lunar and interplanetary crew exploration rocket at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) meeting in Reno, Nev., January 9-12, 2006.
	www.nasa.gov /centers/dryden/home (560 words)

	X-40A third free flight successful (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The X-40A vehicle successfully performed a third free flight test today at Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, Calif. The X-40A was lifted by an Army Chinook helicopter to an altitude of 14,975 feet (4564 meters) and released at 7: 33 a.m.
		The X-40A's free flight and landing tests are being conducted as part of NASA's X-37 program, intended to reduce the risk of flight testing the X-37 experimental re-entry vehicle.
		Dryden Flight Research Center is responsible for the X-37/X-40A flight test activities.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2001-04/NSFC-Xtff-2504101.php (318 words)

	Emergency Landing Using Thrust Control and Shift of Weight
		Normally, the damage that results in a total loss of the primary flight control of a transport airplane, including all the engines on one side, would be catastrophic.
		Dryden Flight Research Center has developed a propulsion-controlled aircraft (PCA) system, in which computer-controlled thrust provides an emergency control capability without using any of the normal control surfaces.
		Of course, practice landings in a simulator or during a high-altitude flight above a real runway are needed to increase the likelihood of a survivable landing.
	www.nasatech.com /Briefs/May02/DRC9655.html (753 words)

	:: NASA Quest > Women of NASA :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		She was appointed chief engineer at Dryden in October 2001 after serving in a series of increasingly responsible positions.
		From 1976 to 1979 she was a student in a cooperative education program at NASA's Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. There she participated in rotorcraft research, and wind tunnel and flight safety projects associated with small civil aircraft.
		Among these projects were flight tests of space shuttle thermal protection tiles with a NASA F-104, B-57 gust gradient evaluations, and the F-14 aileron-rudder interconnect and variable sweep transition laminar-flow programs, in addition to her work on the F-16XL laminar flow project before becoming project manager.
	quest.arc.nasa.gov /people/bios/women/mbmpress.html (525 words)

	Lifting Bodies
		It proved stable in flight (in other words, it did not tumble uncontrollably but glided through the air) and soon he was towing the model into the air behind a gas-powered model where it was released to glide to a landing.
		In the early 1990s, Langley Research Center proposed an upgraded HL-10 known as the HL-20 Personnel Launching Vehicle to serve as a "space taxi" to the International Space Station.
		On the Frontier — Flight Research at Dryden, 1946-1981.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Evolution_of_Technology/lifting_bodies/Tech29.htm (1845 words)

	SR-71 Online - NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
		NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center is located at Edwards AFB, CA, north of Los Angeles in the Mojave Desert.
		It is the leading NASA facility for advanced aeronautical research and is home to many memorable flights in aviation history, including Chuck Yeager's breaking of the sound barrier in the Bell X-1.
		Dryden is a working facility and is not a museum.
	www.sr-71.org /museums/dryden (241 words)

	FLIGHT RESEARCH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The tests were conducted at Dryden Flight Research Center by an International Test Organization (ITO), a component of the NATO Cooperative Research and Development Program, under the management of the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA).
		The SR-71 flights were conducted for Langley Research Center's High Speed (HSR) program (see page 34) with the goal of building a database to help engineers predict the shape and intensity level of sonic booms generated by future high speed aircraft, such as the HSCT.
		The 1995 flights represented a continuation of a program in flight test status since 1992, but the new series involved evaluation of a new laminar flow control system, one that more closely resembles the type of apparatus that would be installed on a HSCT.
	www.jsc.nasa.gov /er/seh/pg40s95.html (529 words)

	July 2005 NASA Dryden Flight Research Center Summer Highlights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Discovery is scheduled to land at KSC at the conclusion of the mission.
		Dryden has acquired new equipment and vehicles and has coordinated with the Air Force and local emergency agencies to train personnel for any possible contingency.
		The flight was the culmination of NASA's Hyper-X Program, a seven-year, approximately $230 million ground and flight test program designed to explore an alternative to rocket power for space access vehicles.
	www.californiaspaceauthority.org /html/press-releasesandletters/pr050711-Dryden.html (517 words)

	USATODAY.com - NASA experimental 'scramjet' prepares for Mach 10 attempt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The second flight last March was a success, reaching Mach 6.83 — nearly 5,000 mph _and setting a new world speed record for a plane powered by an air-breathing engine.
		Before the Mach 7 flight, a full-scale version of the engine was tested to that level of performance in a ground facility at Langley Research Center.
		But the full Mach 10 flight can't be tested on the ground, where run times are on the order of 10 milliseconds compared to the 10 seconds expected in the actual flight, Marshall said.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/news/techinnovations/2004-11-12-scramjet_x.htm (812 words)

	Global Aircraft -- History of Aviation
		Their first flight was 102 feet short of the wingspan of the C-5 Galaxy today, yet they did what every man and woman has dreamed for centuries.
		Yet, not all flights were victorious, on September 17, their aircraft crashed, injuring Orville and his passenger (Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge).
		This flight was made from Roosevelt Field, Long Island to Rockwell Field, San Diego; and the first round the world flight was made from April 6 to September 28, 1924.
	www.globalaircraft.org /history_of_aviation.htm (1410 words)

	Edwards AFB Satellite Images and Dryden Pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Above is the Southern part of Dryden Research Center and clearly dominating the area is the oldest serving B-52 in service.
		Dryden is at the top of the image with the main runway of Edwards at the bottom image just out of view.
		In the center of the bottom of the image is a large hanger which is elongated NW to SE and this is the famous Benefield Anechoic Chamber which is Building 1030.
	www.dreamlandresort.com /info/edwardssat.htm (1405 words)

	NASA Team Flies First Laser-Powered Aircraft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Oct. 17 -- Researchers from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif., and the University of Alabama in Huntsville have demonstrated the first-ever small-scale aircraft that flies solely from power delivered by an invisible, ground-based laser.
		After the craft was released from a launching platform inside the building, the laser beam was aimed at the airplane panels, causing the propeller to spin and propel the craft around the building, lap after lap.
		The recent flights at Marshall are the first known demonstration of an aircraft flying totally powered by a ground-based laser.
	www.photonics.com /fiber/XQ/ASP/url.readnews/newsid.2170/QX/readnews.htm (445 words)

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