This bright blue-and-white twin-jet aircraft may have looked like an ordinary F/A-18 Hornet fighter, but inside it was a different bird.
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This bright blue-and-white twin-jet aircraft may have looked like an ordinary F/A-18 Hornet fighter, but inside it was a different bird. Flown by NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., in a multi-year, joint NASA/DOD/industry project, the former Navy fighter was modified into a unique Systems Research Aircraft (SRA) to investigate a host of new technologies in flight controls, airdata sensing, and advanced computing.May 1996NASA Photo / › F-18 SRA Project Description