NASA laying groundwork for DOD unmanned refueling effort

With the ultimate goal of enabling an automated aerial refueling (AAR) demonstration in 2005, NASA is gathering data on U.S. Navy-style hose/drogue refueling, a process whose physics are not well understood, according to AAR Project Manager Gerard Schkolnik. "The state of the art right now for Navy...

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