Justin Hall, left, controls a subscale aircraft as Justin Link holds the aircraft in place during preliminary engine tests on Friday, Sept. 12, 2025, at NASA’s Armstong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California.
Hall, chief pilot at the center’s Dale Reed Subscale Flight Research Laboratory, and Link, a pilot for small uncrewed aircraft systems, are building the large subscale aircraft to support increasingly complex flight research, offering a more flexible and cost-effective alternative to crewed missions. Once ready, the aircraft will help evaluate new concepts, technologies, and flight controls to support NASA missions on Earth and beyond.
Image Credit: NASA/Christopher LC Clark
2025年9月12日星期五，在加利福尼亚州爱德华兹的NASA阿姆斯特朗飞行研究中心，左侧的贾斯汀·霍尔正在操控一架缩比飞机，而贾斯汀·林克在初步发动机测试期间协助固定飞机。
霍尔是该中心戴尔·里德缩比飞行研究实验室的首席飞行员，林克则是小型无人航空系统飞行员。两人正在建造这架大型缩比飞机，用于支持日益复杂的飞行研究，为有人飞行任务提供一种更灵活且更具成本效益的替代方案。待飞机准备就绪后，它将用于评估新的概念、技术和飞行控制系统，以支持NASA在地球及更远深空的各类任务。
图片来源: NASA/Christopher LC Clark
