The NASA Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) is an aeronautical research center operated.
Its primary campus is located inside and is considered NASA’s premier site for aeronautical research. AFRC operates some of the most advanced aircraft in the world and is known for many aviation firsts, including critical support for the first manned to exceed the in level flight with the Bell X-1, highest speed ever recorded by a manned, powered aircraft (North American X-15), the first pure digital fly-by-wire aircraft (F-8 DFBW), and many others.
AFRC also operates a second site in Palmdale, Ca. Dragon Age. Known as Building 703, once the former Rockwell International/North American Aircraft production facility, at Air Force Plant 42.
There, AFRC houses and operates several of NASA's Science Mission Directorate aircraft including, a DC-8 Flying Laboratory, a Gulfstream C-20A UAVSAR and ER-2 High Altitude Platform. David McBride is currently the center's director. March 1 st, 2014 the facility was renamed in honor of, a former test pilot at the center and the first human being to walk on the surface of the moon. The center was previously known as the Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC) from March 26th 1976 in honor of, a prominent who at the time of his death in 1965 was NASA's deputy administrator.
Jan 27, 2014. NASA's Hugh L. Dryden Flight Research Center in southern California will be renamed to honor the first man to walk on the Moon. President Barack Obama signed H.R. 667 into law Jan. 16, renaming the flight facility the Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center. The new law still pays homage to.
It has also previously been known as the Muroc Flight Test Unit (1945), the NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station (1949), the NACA High-Speed Flight Station (1954), the NASA High-Speed Flight Station (1958) and the NASA Flight Research Center (1959). Download Game Winning Eleven 2013 Java Jar 240x320. AFRC was also the home of the (SCA), a modified Boeing 747 designed to carry a Space Shuttle orbiter back to if one landed at Edwards. Until 2004, Armstrong Flight Research Center operated the oldest bomber, a B-52B model (tail number 008) which had been converted to aircraft, dubbed '.'