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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Photo: "Smart Plane" Technology Could Help Damaged Craft Fly Right


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A modified F-15 aircraft outfitted with experimental software called the Intelligent Flight Control System takes a test flight past California's Boron Mine on December 6, 2002.

The flight system, still under development at NASA, is meant to help planes that experience major system failures maintain control and make safe landings.

Photograph by Carla Thomas/NASA