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English: In the center foreground of this 1953 hanger photo is the YF-84A (NACA 134/Air Force 45-59490) used for vortex generator research. It arrived on November 28, 1949, and departed on April 21, 1954. Beside it is the third D-558-1 aircraft (NACA 142/Navy 37972). This aircraft was used for a total of 78 transonic research flights from April 1949 to June 1954. It replaced the second D-558-1, lost in the crash which killed Howard Lilly. Just visible on the left edge is the nose of the first D-558-2 (NACA 143/Navy 37973). Douglas turned the aircraft over to NACA on August 31, 1951, after the contractor had completed its initial test flights. NACA only made a single flight with the aircraft, on September 17, 1956, before the program was cancelled. In the center of the photo is the B-47A (NACA 150/Air Force 49-1900). The B-47 jet bomber, with its thin, swept-back wings, and six podded engines, represented the state of the art in aircraft design in the early 1950s. The aircraft undertook a number of research activities between May 1953 and its 78th and final research flight on November 22, 1957. The tests showed that the aircraft had a buffeting problem at speeds above Mach 0.8. Among the pilots who flew the B-47 were later X-15 pilots Joe Walker, A. Scott Crossfield, John B. McKay, and Neil A. Armstrong. On the right side of the B-47 is NACA's X-1 (Air Force 46-063). The second XS-1 aircraft built, it was fitted with a thicker wing than that on the first aircraft, which had exceeded Mach 1 on October 14, 1947. Flight research by NACA pilots indicated that this thicker wing produced 30 percent more drag at transonic speeds compared to the thinner wing on the first X-1. After a final flight on October 23, 1951, the aircraft was grounded due to the possibility of fatigue failure of the nitrogen spheres used to pressurize the fuel tanks. At the time of this photo, in 1953, the aircraft was in storage. In 1955, the aircraft was extensively modified, becoming the X-1E. In front o |
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Date | Taken on 27 April 1953 | ||
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Author | NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center / NASA | ||
Keywords InfoField | and XF-92A; D-558-2; X-5; Edwards Air Force Base; Neil A. Armstrong; National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics; vortex generator research; U.S. Air Force Museum; D-558-1; YF-84A; buffeting; A. Scott Crossfield; pitch-up; Joe Walker; drag; Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory; X-1E; swept wings; F-51; NASA; stall; B-47; John B. McKay; delta wing; High-Speed Flight Research Station; NACA; X-1 ship 2; X-4; Dryden Flight Research Center |
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Headline | NACA Aircraft in hangar 1953 - clockwise from front center: YF-84A, D-558-1, D-558-2, B-47, X-1 ship 2, and XF-92A. Behind the B-47 L-R: X-4, F-51, D-558-1, and X-5 |
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City shown | Edwards |
Date and time of data generation | 27 April 1953 |
Orientation | Normal |
Horizontal resolution | 500 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 500 dpi |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 (Windows) |
File change date and time | 09:22, 24 May 2017 |
Exif version | 2.21 |
Color space | Uncalibrated |
Date and time of digitizing | 01:19, 4 March 2009 |
Date metadata was last modified | 03:34, 12 June 2017 |
Copyright status | Copyright status not set |
Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:ea6ccab8-f71f-bb4a-adde-fe63ce636519 |
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Country shown | USA |
IIM version | 4 |