National Museum of the United States Air Force, Dayton, Ohio, 04/13/2019 Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird C/N 2027 61-7976 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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National Museum of the United States Air Force, Dayton, Ohio, 04/13/2019 Convair NC-131H Total In-Flight Simulator (TIFS) N793VS From a Convair NC131H Samaritan c/n 340-245 53-7793 An important in-flight simulator primarily used to study how an aircraft would handle before building an expensive, full-scale prototype. It was especially useful for studying how large aircraft would handle during takeoff and landing. Vertical fins (see separate photo) on the wings generated side forces to simulate crosswinds This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial 4.0 International License.