Shock Sensing Probe Takes Flight

NASA engineers monitor an F-15 and an F/A-18 during a flight in support of the Shock Sensing Probe flight series, from the mission control room at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. The flight series included the use of a technique commonly used by NASA’s predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics – combining two instruments onto the nose of an aircraft to measure the pressure of shock waves from another aircraft.

NASA engineers monitor an F-15 and an F/A-18 during a flight in support of the Shock Sensing Probe flight series, from the mission control room at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. The flight series included the use of a technique commonly used by NASA's predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics - combining two instruments onto the nose of an aircraft to measure the pressure of shock waves from another aircraft.

Photographer NASA/Ken Ulbrich
Location AFRC
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