This photograph shows a modified General Dynamics AFTI/F-111A Aardvark with supercritical mission adaptive wings (MAW) installed. The AFTI/F111A is seen banking towards Rodgers Dry Lake and Edwards Air Force Base. With the phasing out of the TACT program came a renewed effort by the Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory to extend supercritical wing technology to a higher level of performance. In the early 1980s the supercritical wing on the F-111A aircraft was replaced with a wing built by Boeing Aircraft Company System called a “mission adaptive wing” (MAW), and a joint NASA and Air Force program called Advanced Fighter Technology Integration (AFTI) was born.
Photographer NASA
Location Edwards, CA, USA
F-111 AFTIF-111AF-111EAardvarkGeneral Dynamics F-111A AardvarkNASA Dryden Flight Research CenterAir ForceTransonic Aircraft TechnologyTACTMission Adaptive WingMAWDr Richard WhitcombSupercritical WingNASA Langley Research CenterIntegrated Propulsion Control SystemIPCSAdvanced Fighter TechnologyIntegrationAFTIDigital Electronic Engine ControlDEECAir Force Flight Dynamics LaboratoryAir Force Flight Propulsion LaboratoryPratt Whitney CompanyNatural Laminar Flow