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July 08, 2015

Crash Test Assesses Plane Emergency Locator Transmitters
Hampton VA (SPX) Jul 07, 2015
The Cessna 172 airplane dangled 82 feet in the air - looking almost like it was coming in for a landing, except for the cables attaching it to a huge gantry at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Technicians had hauled the 1958 vintage plane to that height, so researchers could drop it to test four emergency locator transmitters (ELTs) installed on board. The research, funded by the NASA Search and Rescue Mission Office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, ... read more

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