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F-16XL Ship #1 CAWAP Flight. Experimental NASA aircraft photograph.
F-16XL Ship #1 CAWAP Flight. Experimental NASA aircraft photograph.
F-16XL Ship #1 CAWAP Flight. NASA public domain image colelction.
An F-15C Eagle fighter aircraft pilot assigned to the
An F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet, 492th Fighter Squadron
A U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft assigned
A U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft flies
An F-15 Eagle, 159th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron,
F-16XL ship #1 CAWAP flight - alpha 15 degrees, altitude 5,000 feet
Summary
The single-seat F-16XL (ship #1) makes another run during the Cranked-Arrow Wing Aerodynamic Project (CAWAP) at Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. The modified airplane features a delta "cranked-arrow" wing with strips of tubing along the leading edge to the trailing edge to sense static on the wing and obtain pressure distribution data. The right wing receives data on pressure distribution and the left wing has three types of instrumentation - preston tubes to measure local skin friction, boundary layer rakes to measure boundary layer profiles (the layer where the air interacts with the surfaces of a moving aircraft), and hot films to determine boundary layer transition locations. This photo shows the aircraft gathering data at an altitude of 5000 feet, with an angle of attack of 15 degrees. The program also gathered aero data on two wing planforms for NASA's High Speed Research Program. The first flight of CAWAP occurred on November 21, 1995, and the test program ended in April 1996.
NASA Identifier: NIX-EC96-43508-16