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This is an unusual sight because FBU730 is usually an A350-900 to LAX. This was also once an Airbus testbed. (Reg: F-HMIL)
Director of Engineering at JSC, Steve Altemus, getting an overview of the test from Morpheus Chief Engineer, Mike Baine.
Location:
Vertical Testbed Flight Complex
Johnson Space Center
Photographer: Kris Kehe
C-FETB - Boeing B-720-023B - Pratt & Whitney Canada Inc.
at Trenton Airbase (YTR) on display within the National Air Force Museum
c/n 18.024 - built in 1960 for American Airlines -
operated by MEA between 1971 and 1985 as OD-AFQ -
operated by Pratt & Whitney Canada as a flying engine testbed between 1986 and 2012
If I recall correctly, 56042 was the testbed for Class 58 bogies and as such spent most of her time plagued by failure!
I don't recall thinking this was anything other than a bob-standard "Grid" when I took the shot, but the result is still pleasantly acceptable. The un-branded two-tone grey Railfreight livery adds to the originalty I guess!
56042 was withdrawn (much to the pleasure of the operators, I'm sure) in September 1991 and cut up during April 1994. RIP.
NASA F-5E with a modified fuselage shape for its employment in the Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration program carried out by DARPA. It is preserved in the Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum at Titusville, Florida
Henning Loshe-Busch, principal mechanical engineer in Argonne's Center for Transportation Research, explains how the Modular Automotive Technology Testbed allows the lab's automotive researchers to evaluate of different engines, transmissions and other core powertrain components during the 2010 Green Car of the Year Tour media event held at Argonne.
C-FETB - Boeing B-720-023B - Pratt & Whitney Canada Inc.
at CFB Trenton Airbase (YTR) on display within the National Air Force Museum
c/n 18.024 - built in 1960 for American Airlines -
operated by MEA between 1971 and 1985 as OD-AFQ -
operated by Pratt & Whitney Canada as a flying engine testbed between 1986 and 2012
Testbed lashup of the new 4-drive NAS array. FreeNAS doesn't seem to let you grow an existing array with new drives so I'm just going to create a new NAS using this test PC and then transfer the drives and the new machine image to the NAS box.
This'll be a 6TB RAID-Z array.
Today was one of the best days at Willie in a long time. In addition to the #4 787 being in town for testing, we had a Dornier 328 Jet, TEN Hornets, a T-44, a C-9, and N-G's BAC 111 testbed.
As a testbed, N747EX, I got a look at this airplane in San Bernardino in 2010. Now it's active with Cargolux, and wearing their new-for-the-747-8 colors that extend the red stripe over the tailfin.
Telephonics - Beechcraft Model 200T Super King Air - N170RL (c/n BT-28/ ex- BB-1117)
This is the Telephonics flying radar testbed. Note the black radome on the underside of the aircraft.
The first 747 ever built - serial number 001. It first flew on February 9, 1969 over Western Washington. Later, this aircraft served as a testbed for 747 systems improvements and new engine developments for other Boeing commercial jets, including the state-of-the-art Boeing 777 engine program.
Boeing 747-400 "General Electric Testbed" N747GE
Fitted with the GE9X turbofan engine under the port wing.
History:
Manufacturer Serial Number (MSN): 26355
Line Number: 1024
Aircraft Type: Boeing 747-400
Age: 25.0 Years
Production Site: Everett (PAE)
Airframe Status: Active
1994: March, - To Japan Airlines as JA8910
2010: December, - To AerSale Inc. as N356AS
2010: December, - To General Electric, testbed. N356AS
2011: December, - To General Electric, testbed. N747GE
The Convair 880 had been somewhat disappointing in service: compared to the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8, it was smaller, and if it was significantly faster, it also was not as fuel efficient. American Airlines was interested in the 880's speed, however, and requested Convair design an upgraded version that could fly nonstop from Los Angeles to New York at high speed, with more passengers than the 880. Convair, hoping this might spur more sales, began work on what would become the Convair 990. It would first fly in 1961.
As per American's request, the 990 was stretched to accomodate up to 121 passengers--still significantly less than the 707 or DC-8. Convair made up for it by making the 990 still faster: the aircraft was further streamlined, and four large shock bodies were added to the wing behind the engines, reducing drag still further. The inboard shock bodies also carried additional fuel. During a flight test in 1961, a 990 reached Mach 0.97 in a dive, setting an airliner speed record, and Convair theorized that it might even reach the speed of sound in certain conditions (though this would not be advisable with passengers aboard).
Unfortunately for Convair, American Airlines was not impressed: the 990 was faster, but this was not as important to the airline as passenger capacity and fuel consumption. Whatever time was saved in the air was lost by refueling the 990 on the ground. The order was reduced to a mere 37 aircraft, and Convair would be forced to take a massive loss of revenue that almost destroyed the company. It would never again produce an airliner.
Though the Convair 990 was not a success, it was not without its fans. American sold off its 990s in 1967, but several went on to longer careers with Swissair and Spantax; it was Swissair that gave the 990 its unofficial name of Coronado. All but four of the 990s were withdrawn from service when Spantax grounded its fleet in the mid-1980s; those four would fly with NASA until the late 1990s as testbeds. Of the 37 990s produced, only four survived, and only two are on public display; pieces of two more exist as well.
This 990 was originally delivered to American Airlines in 1962 as N5617, the 29th 990 built. It flew with American between 1962 and 1968, when it was sold to Modern Air Transport, which used it as a charter aircraft. In 1975, it was acquired by NASA and reregistered as N710NA and later N810NA. N810NA's original purpose was to test the brake systems and tires for the Space Shuttle program, using the same tires as the Shuttle. N810NA would land at various runways, including the Shuttle Landing Field at the Kennedy Space Center and the dry lake bed at Edwards AFB, at the same velocity as the Shuttle to test how well the tires could handle the shock of landing. It was used for other systems testing as well. NASA would retire N810NA in the late 1990s, and as one of the last 990s in the world, was placed on display as a gate guard at Mojave Air and Spaceport.
I was looking forward to seeing this aircraft, but for some reason, I was under the impression this was an 880. It wasn't until I saw the shock bodies that I realized it was indeed a 990. It was a pleasant surprise, as I'd never seen a 990 before. N810NA is well-maintained and in excellent condition; the only addition to its markings from its NASA days are the Mojave Air and Spaceport marking on the forward fuselage.
Airbus A380-861
MSN 004 [Engine Alliance testbed]
F-WWDD 'VNO'
Airbus S.A.S.
Copyright © 2012 A380spotter. All rights reserved.
Avro Lincoln B.2 G-37-1 at Farnborough in September 1956 Testbed with Rolls Royce Tyne turboprop in its nose. This is not a particularly great image but I think it's interesting in showing the cars of the time, particularly being in colour.
Photo by John W. Read.
Reshade 0.17 Framework Eyecancer Mod Testbed 0.2A
Blackfire's mod + TOD + Reli2
Ini tweaks + POM enabled
Lite TOD, light shadows, nohud, dof %25-50, adjusted brightess, contrast and gamma + exposure
80º FoV
Custom helmet mesh lens texture.
SMAA (sweetfx+master effect) FXAA (custom settings)
Tonemap
Lensdirt
Vibrance
GPC Dof
Chromatic Aberration
Grain + noise
Letterbox
Airbus A380-861
MSN 004 [Engine Alliance testbed]
F-WWDD 'VNO'
Airbus S.A.S.
Copyright © 2010 A380spotter. All rights reserved.
Airbus A380-861
MSN 004 [Engine Alliance testbed]
F-WWDD 'VNO'
Airbus S.A.S.
Copyright © 2010 A380spotter. All rights reserved.
Airbus A380-861
MSN 004 [Engine Alliance testbed]
F-WWDD 'VNO'
Airbus S.A.S.
Copyright © 2012 A380spotter. All rights reserved.
Zvezda 1/144 Il-76MD converted to an IL-76LL engine testbed using a 3D-printed PD-14 engine and custom decals
Just come out of Air Livery and is now All white. Will go to Airbus as a flying testbed for the A350
Manchester Airport, 05/02/2005
The 5th 757 to be built, it was delivered to Eastern Airlines as N504EA in February 1983.
Following Eastern's demise in January 1991 it was stored before being acquired by Airtours International as G-JALC in February 1995. Airtours changed their name to MyTravel in 2002 and it continued in service with them until May 2005.
It was registered to Honeywell International (N757HW) in late 2005 and has been used as an engine testbed platform operating from their base at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport.
Vultee V-11A NR14980 heavily rebuilt into the V-11T NX14980--Perman Collection Image--Please tag these photos so information can be recorded.---Note: This material may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.)--Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
Railroad:
EMD
Locomotive:
EMDX 1207
Train:
none
Location:
McCook, IL
Date:
03/14/2015
Comment:
EMDX 91 and EMDX 1207 are parked out in the EMD backlot for some modifications.
It's been too long since I last saw Raytheon's flying avionics testbed, "Voodoo 1." It seems to have sprouted a few more bulges and blisters since the last time I got a photo, too.
Installed at the National Weather Radar Testbed facility, the Advanced Technology Demonstrator, or ATD, is the first full-scale, S-band, dual-polarization phased array radar built from the ground up and designed specifically for use as a weather radar.
Photo credit: James Murnan/NOAA
Airbus A380-861
MSN 004 [Engine Alliance testbed]
F-WWDD 'VNO'
Airbus S.A.S.
Copyright © 2012 A380spotter. All rights reserved.
Hamburg Hochbahn use Route 109 as a technology testbed, putting various types of advanced propulsion through their paces in real service. This is a Volvo 7900A hybrid at its terminus at Alsterdorf, standing beneath the charger apparatus which can be lowered on to terminals in the bus roof and give it an intermediate juice boost so that it can run in "pure electric" mode for longer.
EX Pratt & Whitney Canada Boeing 720-023B (18027/189) originally del to AAL. The end at Mojave Airport.
Project: Tiny TIM (Threats-In-Motion)
Location: NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed / National Weather Center (Norman, OK)
Date: Feb 28, 2023
Photographer: James Murnan / NOAA NSSL
This experiment brings together NWS forecasters and researchers to evaluate and provide feedback on the concept of allowing warnings to be extended in time and area, a first step towards Threats-In-Motion (TIM) for severe weather warnings for hail, wind, and tornadoes. To facilitate this evaluation, forecasters use Hazard Services Convective to create and manage TIM warnings. The concept and software is tested on several archived cases.
X-34 technology testbed demonstrator. Specific technologies built into the vehicle include composite structures, composite reusable propellant fuel tanks, an advanced thermal protection system, low-cost avionics, leading-edge tiles, and autonomous flight operation systems. 1999
High Technology Test Bed demonstrator, later lost in a crash.
See other older shots in the set "Ancient Aviation".
Engine testbed operated by Honeywell. The aircraft usually has a small pylon on the right hand side (not visible) for its airborne tests.
N757HW visited Birmingham, England at the end of May 2015.
Reshade 0.15 Extreme Eyecancer Mod Testbed 0.1A
Blackfire's mod + TOD + Reli2
Ini tweaks + POM enabled
Lite TOD, light shadows, nohud, dof %25-50, adjusted brightess, contrast and gamma + exposure
80º FoV
SMAA (sweetfx+master effect) FXAA (custom settings)
Tonemap
Lensdirt
Vibrance
GPC Dof
Chromatic Aberration
Grain + noise
Letterbox
Siemens testbed Vectron 193 971 on its way to Kontiomäki in Northern Finland for tests on a test track at Laajakangas on 19.4.2015. These photos were taken at Malmi near Helsinki.
The DP-4 Dragonfly was the world's first VTOL unmanned aerial system; it measured 8.5 feet in length and 2.75 feet in height. The 90-lb craft could carry a 45-lb payload. It was designed by Bert Riley, who contributed his extensive knowledge of these craft as an engineer at Boeing.
Zvezda 1/144 Il-76MD converted to an IL-76LL engine testbed using a 3D-printed PD-14 engine and custom decals
Project: Tiny TIM (Threats-In-Motion)
Location: NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed / National Weather Center (Norman, OK)
Date: Feb 28, 2023
Photographer: James Murnan / NOAA NSSL
This experiment brings together NWS forecasters and researchers to evaluate and provide feedback on the concept of allowing warnings to be extended in time and area, a first step towards Threats-In-Motion (TIM) for severe weather warnings for hail, wind, and tornadoes. To facilitate this evaluation, forecasters use Hazard Services Convective to create and manage TIM warnings. The concept and software is tested on several archived cases.