https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/148be256-0132-4f42-937b-9b59517d6c29 This 23-second video taken in 1995 shows the F-18 High Alpha Research Vehicle (HARV) undergoing a Phase III Strake Experiment flight test over Edwards Air Force Base in California’s Mojave Desert. NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center (now Armstrong) at Edwards, CA, used an F-18A fighter aircraft as its High Angle-of-Attack (Alpha) Research Vehicle (HARV) in a three-phased flight research project lasting from April 1987 until September 1996. The aircraft completed 385 research flights and demonstrated stabilized flight at angles of attack between 65 and 70 degrees using thrust vectoring vanes, a research flight control system, and (eventually) forebody strakes (hinged structures on the forward side of the fuselage to provide control by interacting with vortices, generated at high angles of attack, to create side forces). This combination of technologies provided carefree handling of a fighter aircraft in a part of the flight regime that was otherwise very dangerous. Flight research with the HARV increased NASA's understanding of flight at high angles of attack (angle of the wings with respect to the direction in which the aircraft was heading), enabling designers of U.S. fighter aircraft to design airplanes that will fly safely in portions of the flight envelope that pilots previously had to avoid. To learn more about the F-18 High Alpha Research Vehicle (HARV) visit: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/history/pastprojects/HARV/index.html Mirrored from YouTube: https://youtu.be/FD0o00S1BtU Original channel: NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:58:55 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/ec5edb1e-3795-4978-be4f-c67e98fbc992.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/148be256-0132-4f42-937b-9b59517d6c29 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.