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well clear of other aircraft. digital active phased array radar system. The mended to avoid the intruder. Airborne Science
The final series of test flights for the proj- flight series included DAA encounters with NASA was also part of the team that de- Armstrong’s DC-8 flying laboratory and
ect, known as Flight Test Series 6 focused on several types of intruder aircraft representing veloped the software system that will assume ER-2 high-altitude research aircraft partici-
low size, weight, and power sensors for DAA common size aircraft that a UAS might encoun- control of an aircraft upon imminent ground pated in a joint campaign with the National
operations in controlled airspace to inform the ter in the NAS, including the King Air B200, collision, called the Automatic Ground Col- Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to
FAA on minimum operational performance T-34C, and TG-14 motorized sailplane. These lision Avoidance System (Auto GCAS). This improve its ground- and satellite-based fore-
standards for DAA and air-to-air radar. The encounters were designed to demonstrate the system has been integrated into military air- casting models of smoke from wildland fires.
FT6 tests used a NAVMAR Applied Science effectiveness of the TigerShark’s DAA alerting The Fire Influence on Regional to Global En-
Corporation TigerShark UAS equipped with a system and what type of guidance it recom- craft and has saved eight pilots since it was vironments and Air Quality effort used sensors
fielded about five years ago. The Auto GCAS to see through smoke and flames, providing sci-
team was awarded the 2018 Robert J. Collier entists with data to understand how fuel and
Trophy, which recognizes the greatest achieve- fire conditions at the point of ignition influence
ments in aeronautics or astronautics in the the chemistry of smoke, what happens to at-
country each year.
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NASA photograph
NASA photograph NASA researchers used the schlieren photography technique to capture the first air-to-air images
Artist’s concept of the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology X-plane, or QueSST, that will begin of the interaction of shockwaves from two T-38 aircraft flying in formation, approximately 30 feet
flying in a few years. apart, at supersonic speeds.

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