Day #2 at the #flyNASA Social Media event and it started early again. Paul drove Rebecca and I again (thanks Paul!) to Edwards AFB/NASA Armstrong and we got there around only to find that we were locked out! Half the group made it in through security, and half of us sadly did not. So we had to wait and wait and wait…Needless to say, today’s schedule was off over an hour, but we still got to do everything and it was another wonderful day at NASA!
8:00am (really after 9am)
Controlled Impact Demonstration Briefing by Al Bowers
Fly-by-Wire History with Dr. Christian Gelzer, Chief Historian
Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System with Mark Skoog, Chief Engineer
10:30am (but happened much later)
Flow Visualization Facility Tour with Jennifer Cole
Flight Loads Lab Tour with Larry Hudson
Global Hawk Airborne Science Briefing with Chris Naftel
Uninhabited Aircraft Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar Briefing with pilot Manny Antimisairis
12:30 (actually happened a lot later): Officially end of Day #2 and Lunch
Visit the Air Force Base Flight Test Museum at Edwards AFB
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- NASA social media participants trying to enter Edwards AFB
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- Chief Scientist Al Bowers
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- Last rows seem to be the safest
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- Fly-By-Wire from Chief Historian Dr Christian Gelzer
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- Dr Christian Gelzer and a Apollo Guidance Computer DSKY
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- Memory is 38k with 36k read-only, from Apollo 15
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- Touching the Apollo Guidance Computer DSKY (its been to the moon!)
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- Mark Skoog, Chief Engineer, discussing the Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System
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- NASA’s phone app for collision avoidance for all planes, still in development
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- Flow Visualization Facility
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- Flow Visualization Facilities tour with Jennifer Cole
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- F-18 model
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- Go with the flow!
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- Flight Loads Lab
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- Towed-glider air-launch system
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- Flight Loads Lab Tour with Larry Hudson
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- Giving it a try!
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- Global Hawk hangar!
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- Global Hawk
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- Global Hawk
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- Global Hawk selfie!
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- Global Hawk selfie!
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- Panorama photo
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- Justin Google Glassing
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- Trying the Google Glasses!
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- Robert McCall painting
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- Lifting body M2F1
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- Lunar Landing Research Vehicl
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- Kate and me
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- Peter Merlin signed his book on ‘Area 51’ for me!
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- SR-71A Blackbird
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- Air Force Flight Test Museum
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- Historian Peter Merlin
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- Full-size replica of the X-1
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- Pancho’s!
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- X-36
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- X-48C Hybrid Wing Body
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- Peter Merlin and a piece of the X-15A he found
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- Touching (yes, I asked for permission)
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- Hughes AIM-4 ‘Falcon’
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- Chuck Yeager’s handprints
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- Pancho’s handprint
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- The First Flights Wall
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- Pancho Barnes’s truck door
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- Brine shrimp
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- Edwards AFB
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- SR-71A Blackbird
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- UC-45J ‘EXPEDITOR’
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- T-33A ‘Shooting Star’
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- T-28B ‘Trojan’
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- T-28B
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- Sikorsky H-34 helicopter
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- NA-37B ‘Dragonfly’
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- B-52D Stratofortress
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- PA-48 ‘Enforcer’ N482PE
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- NF-4C ‘Phantom II’
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- YA-10B ‘Thunderbolt II’
