de Havilland augmenter wing model 3/4 front view in 40 x 80 wind tunnel. JOHN CONWAY, ALAN WHEELBAND
de Havilland Augmenter Wing Model in Ames 40x80 foot Wind Tunnel.
3/4 front view, a=0. de Havilland Augmenter Wing Model, High Lift System in Ames 40x80 Foot Wind Tunnel. Cecil McDonald and Al Wheelband in picture.
Augmenter Wing High Lift System in Ames 40x80 Foot Wind Tunnel.
The Lockheed Viking S-3B aircraft is being pulled out of the hangar at Glenn Research Center in preparation for its departure and retirement from service.  This former NAVY aircraft was the last such aircraft still flying.  It has gone to a museum on the west coast.  After leaving service with the NAVY, it came to GRC to be used in aircraft icing experiments.  The swept wings made it suitable for such research as opposed to the straight wings on GRG’s other icing research aircraft, the De Havilland Twin Otter.
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