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X-36 Carried Aloft by Helicopter during Radio and Telemetry Tests

A Bell UH-1 helicopter lifts the X-36 Tailless Fighter Agility Research Aircraft off the ground for radio frequency and telemetry tests above Rogers Dry Lake at NASA Dryden (now Armstrong) Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, in November 1996. The purpose of taking the X-36 aloft for the radio and telemetry system checkouts was to test the systems more realistically while airborne. More taxi and radio frequency tests were conducted before the aircraft's first flight in early 1997.

 

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Credit: NASA/Brent Wood

Image Number: EC96-43802-74

Date: November 1996

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