File:Douglas DC-8 72 just before touchdown.jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file(2,402 × 1,908 pixels, file size: 4.69 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary[edit]

Description
English: DC-8 Airborne Laboratory arrival at NASA Dryden - NASA's DC-8 Airborne Science platform landed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, to join the fleet of aircraft at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center. The white aircraft with a blue stripe running horizontally from the nose to the tail is shown with its main landing gear just above the runway. The former airliner is a "dash-72" model and has a range of 5,400 miles. The craft can stay airborne for 12 hours and has an operational speed range between 300 and 500 knots. The research flights are made at between 500 and 41,000 feet. The aircraft can carry up to 30,000 lbs of research/science payload equipment installed in 15 mission-definable spaces.
Date
Source http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/DC-8/HTML/EC97-44358-002.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: EC97-44358-002.

This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.
Other languages:

Licensing[edit]

Public domain This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.)
Warnings:

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current22:30, 8 March 2008Thumbnail for version as of 22:30, 8 March 20082,402 × 1,908 (4.69 MB)Mbdortmund (talk | contribs)
14:57, 14 January 2007Thumbnail for version as of 14:57, 14 January 20072,432 × 2,400 (2.26 MB)Uwe W. (talk | contribs)DC-8 Airborne Laboratory arrival at NASA Dryden Historical: Do not use as current Dryden information Photo Number: EC97-44358-002<br> Photo Date: December 29, 1997 Formats: 513x480 JPEG Image (78 KBytes)<br> 1096x1024 JPEG Image (381 KBytes)<br> 2

The following 2 pages use this file:

File usage on other wikis

The following other wikis use this file:

Metadata