https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/8def9fcb-3f49-4785-af50-4402ec99a6f9 This 21-second video was taken between 1979 and 1982 at NASA's Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility (now Armstrong Flight Research Center). It shows the Ames-Dryden-1 (AD-1), a research aircraft designed to investigate the concept of an oblique or pivoting wing. The AD-1 was designed as a low-cost/low-speed research aircraft to test a pivot-wing design. The AD-1 took off with its wing positioned at a right angle with the fuselage. Once in the air, the wing would rotate on its pivot point on the fuselage until it formed a 60 degree angle. The goal was to design a high-speed transport with low drag. The AD-1 made a total of 79 flights, but adverse handling at sharp sweep angles made the approach less attractive. To learn more about the AD-1 visit: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/history/pastprojects/AD1/index.html Mirrored from YouTube: https://youtu.be/EpcpxkZ5zII Original channel: NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:46:16 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/8def9fcb-3f49-4785-af50-4402ec99a6f9 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.