Taking an X-Airplane to the Paris Air Show.

Abstract

The X-3l Enhanced Fighter Maneuverability (EFM) Program had four goals when the program was initiated in the late 1980's: (1) Rapid demonstration of high agility maneuvering concepts. (2) Investigation of tactical benefits of EFM technologies. (3) Development of design requirements and to provide a database for future airplane applications. (4) Validation of an international low cost prototyping program. Two X-3l demonstrator airplanes began flight test at Rockwell's Palmdale Test Center in 1990. The airplanes employed multi-axis thrust vectoring as the enabling technology for Enhanced Fighter maneuverability. After completing initial post-stall envelope clearance flights at palmdale, the two airplanes and the X-31 program were moved to the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center in early 1992 to complete envelope expansion and to conduct close-in-air combat testing.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 27, 1995
Accession Number
ADA300967

Entities

People

  • Fred D. Know
  • Thomas C. Santangelo

Organizations

  • Naval Air Warfare Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Warfare
  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Airplanes
  • Altitude
  • Control Systems
  • Flight
  • Flight Control Systems
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Low Altitude
  • Navigation
  • Research Aircraft
  • Sea Level
  • Simulations
  • Systems Engineering
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering.
  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.