NASA Crashing Cessna 172s To Improve Emergency Locator Transmitters

NASA is purposely crashing three Cessna 172 aircraft as it works to improve the performance of emergency locator transmitters. Technicians hauled a 1958-vintage 172 82 ft. in the air, connected by cables to a huge gantry at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. That way researchers...

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