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Upper surface blowing configured Rockwell International Aero with United Aircraft of Canada JT15D is furnishing NASA Langley Research Center aerodynamic and noise data. Aircraft was modified to save cost of constructing a new tunnel aircraft.
The No. 2 General Dynamics YF-16 lightweight fighter prototype, painted in sky blue and white camouflage, was featured on Aviation Week’s cover on April 1, 1974, a little more than a month before its first flight. The jet was powered by an F100 engine, the same used by the F-15. After a one-year flyoff against the Northrop YF-17 prototype, the YF-16 was chosen as the winner by the U.S. Air Force in January 1975 and became the F-16, entering service in 1979.
"There are a large number of woods used in the construction of airplane propellers and the selection of one suitable to meet the conditions in hand is not always an easy problem," writes Frank W. Caldwell.
In this issue we published a feature about the evolution of the airplane. On page 450, C. G. Grey wrote: "Although the first human flight on a power-driven airplane, free from control on the ground was made by Orville Wright on Dec. 17, 1903, it was not until 1908 that the airplane as a more or less consistently navigable vehicle, really came into being."
The event will be hosted by the Government of Spain, The Regional Ministry for Tourism, Culture and Sport of the Government of Andalucia, and Seville City Hall.
Aviation Maintenance Technician Day is coming up on May 24. Our editors would love to hear what your company is planning to recognize your AMT workforce.
The opening of the 1989 Paris Air Show was marred by the crash of a Soviet Mikoyan MiG-29 fighter during a flight demonstration in front of thousands of spectators, but the pilot was able to steer the doomed aircraft away from the crowd and safely eject, averting a major tragedy.
