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Shuttle Testing

Testing of the Space Shuttle landing gear system, visible between the two main landing gear components on this NASA CV-990, modified as a Landing Systems Research Aircraft. The Space Shuttle landing gear test unit, operated by a high-pressure hydraulic system, allowed engineers to assess and document the performance of space shuttle main and nose landing gear systems, tires and wheel assemblies, plus braking and nose wheel steering performance. #convair990 #spaceshuttle #nasa

NASA Convair 990

Check out the Convair 990 Landing Systems Research Aircraft (LSRA), in flight over NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards AFB for a test of the space shuttle landing gear system. The space shuttle landing gear test unit, operated by a high-pressure hydraulic system, allowed engineers to assess and document the performance of space shuttle main and nose landing gear systems, tires and wheel assemblies, plus braking and nose wheel steering performance. The series of 155

Convair 990 LSRA

Here is NASA's Landing Systems Research Aircraft (LSRA), a modified Convair 990. A new landing gear test fixture representative of the shuttle's landing gear system had been installed in the lower fuselage of the CV-990 test aircraft between the aircraft's normal main landing gear. Following initial flights, static loads testing and calibration of the test gear were conducted at Dryden. Tests allowed engineers to assess the performance of the space shuttle's main and nose lan