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English: A Convair 990 (CV-990), NASA 810 or N810NA, was used as a Landing Systems Research Aircraft (LSRA) at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, to test space shuttle landing gear and braking systems as part of NASA's effort to upgrade and improve space shuttle capabilities. The first flight at Dryden of the CV-990 with shuttle test components occurred in April 1993, and tests continued into August 1995, when this photo shows a test of the shuttle tires. The purpose of this series of tests was to determine the performance parameters and failure limits of the tires. This particular landing was on the dry lakebed at Edwards, but other tests occurred on the main runway there.
The CV-990, built in 1962 by the Convair Division of General Dynamics Corp., Ft. Worth, Texas, served as a research aircraft at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, before it came to Dryden.
Date Taken on 12 August 1995
Source http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/Photo/LSRA/HTML/EC95-43230-4.html
Author NASA/Tony Landis
This image or video was catalogued by Armstrong Flight Research Center of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: EC95-43230-4.

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current03:18, 27 March 2023Thumbnail for version as of 03:18, 27 March 20233,030 × 2,356 (11.48 MB)Huntster (talk | contribs)Cropped 10 % vertically using CropTool with lossless mode.
03:13, 27 March 2023Thumbnail for version as of 03:13, 27 March 20233,030 × 2,606 (11.08 MB)Huntster (talk | contribs)Full resolution from NASA.
17:56, 24 May 2005Thumbnail for version as of 17:56, 24 May 20051,188 × 926 (295 KB)Stahlkocher (talk | contribs)Convair CV 990, NASA Image Source: http://www1.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/LSRA/Medium/index.html {{PD-USGov-NASA}} Category:Convair; Civil aircraft\

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