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This 53 second movie clip shows an F/A-18 Automated Aerial Refueling (AAR). Engineers at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center are evaluating the capability of an F/A-18A aircraft as an in-flight refueling tanker to develop analytical models for an automated aerial refueling system for unmanned air vehicles (UAVs). The Automated Aerial Refueling (AAR) project is documenting how an operational tanker's drogue basket responds when in the presence of the receiver aircraft. Currently little flight-obtained dynamics data exists. For this modeling study, a second F/A-18 is flying as the receiver aircraft. The F/A-18A tanker aircraft is undergoing flight test envelope expansion with an aerodynamic pod containing air-refueling equipment carried beneath the fuselage. During the 1990s, the refueling pod was integrated on the newer F/A-18E/F. According to AAR project engineers, the objectives of the recent flights at NASA Dryden are to demonstrate the operational flight envelope and to assess the free-stream hose and drogue dynamics on the earlier model F/A-18s. NASA Dryden's Automated Aerial Refueling (AAR) project is conducting flight tests to develop analytical models of the flowfield of an aerial refueling drogue for a future automated aerial refueling system for unmanned air vehicles. The study is part of a larger Automated Aerial Refueling program led by Air Force Research Laboratory. AAR is using two of Dryden's highly instrumented F/A-18s. The first aircraft (No. 847) has been modified into a tanker by fitting it with an aerial refueling pod similar to that used by the NAVY on S-3 Vikings and F/A-18E/Fs. The second aircraft (No. 845) is flying as the receiver aircraft during the study to quantify the free-stream hose and drogue dynamics. Keywords: Dryden; AAR; Automated Aerial Refueling; UAV; F/A-18; Dryden Flight Research Center

العربية: قصة صحفية عن بناء الطائرة هيركليس إتش 4
Čeština: Letoun F/A-18 se účastní automatizovaného tankování paliva za letu (AAR)
English: An F/A-18 plane engaging in Automated Aerial Refueling (AAR)
Italiano: Rifornimento in volo tra due cacciabombardieri McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet
日本語: 自動空中給油(Automated Aerial Refueling)を行うドライデンのF/A-18
Македонски: Репортажа за изградбата на авионот Хјуз H-4 Херкулес наречен „Смрекина гуска“
Polski: Samoloty F/A-18 w trakcie manewru automatycznego tankowania w powietrzu (Automated Aerial Refueling)
Svenska: Ett F/A-18 plan under automatisk lufttankning (AAR)
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Author NASA
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Media of the day This file was selected as the media of the day for 07 May 2010. It was captioned as follows:
English: An F/A-18 plane engaging in Automated Aerial Refueling (AAR)
Other languages
العربية: قصة صحفية عن بناء الطائرة هيركليس إتش 4
Čeština: Letoun F/A-18 se účastní automatizovaného tankování paliva za letu (AAR)
English: An F/A-18 plane engaging in Automated Aerial Refueling (AAR)
Italiano: Rifornimento in volo tra due cacciabombardieri McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet
日本語: 自動空中給油(Automated Aerial Refueling)を行うドライデンのF/A-18
Македонски: Репортажа за изградбата на авионот Хјуз H-4 Херкулес наречен „Смрекина гуска“
Polski: Samoloty F/A-18 w trakcie manewru automatycznego tankowania w powietrzu (Automated Aerial Refueling)
Sicilianu: Rifurnimentu n volu ntra dui cacciabummarderi McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet
Svenska: Ett F/A-18 plan under automatisk lufttankning (AAR)

Media of the day This file was selected as the media of the day for 28 August 2009. It was captioned as follows:
English: Automated air refueling of an F/A-18 Hornet (video)
Other languages
English: Automated air refueling of an F/A-18 Hornet (video)
Македонски: Автоматизирано полнење на гориво во лет на млазниот авион F/A-18 Хорнет (видеоинсерт)
Polski: Zautomatyzowane tankowanie w powietrzu odrzutowca F/A-18 Hornet (wideo)
Русский: Автоматизированная воздушная дозаправка F/A-18 Hornet (видео)
中文(简体):F18大黄蜂战斗机在空中加油的录象
中文(繁體):F/A-18黃蜂式戰鬥攻擊機自動進行空中加油的影片

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01:10, 5 May 200553 s, 480 × 360 (9.38 MB)Brian0918This 53 second movie clip shows an F/A-18 Automated Aerial Refueling (AAR). Engineers at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center are evaluating the capability of an F/A-18A aircraft as an in-flight refueling tanker to develop analytical models for an automa

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