Notice: The Lancaster Museum of Art and History will be temporarily closed for installation from Monday, December 30, through Friday, January 24. Join us on Saturday, January 25, for the opening reception of two exciting new exhibitions: Before You Now: Capturing the Self in Portraiture and Before You Now: Photographic Transmutation. The reception is free and will take place from 2–4 PM at the Lancaster Museum of Art and History. Get tickets!
•X-31, The World's First International X-Plane
•F-8 Digital Fly-By-Wire Aircraft
1. X-31, The World's First International X-Plane
NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center
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Digital Photography
Courtesy of NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center
2. F-8 Digital Fly-By-Wire Aircraft
NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center
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Digital Photography
Courtesy of NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center
1. The X-31, the world's first international X-plane, demonstrates controlled flight at high alpha courtesy of its canards and thrust vectoring paddles in the exhaust stream.
2. The F-8 Digital Fly-By-Wire aircraft had its hydro-mechanical control systems replaced by an Apollo Guidance Computer for the first such control system to fly.