NASA X-4 Bantam plane that can be broken in two - photo

[Jon]

NASA X-4 Bantam plane that can be broken in two for servicing.

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More: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstro...-078-DFRC.html

Previously:

Pivoting wing NASA airplane - GIF and video
NASA satellite launch fails caused by metals fraud - DOJ legal document
NASA Mate/Demate device to lower space shuttle onto carrier aircraft - GIF and photo
Redesigned NASA door after Apollo 1 fire - GIF
NASA water deluge rocket launch system - GIF
NASA Technical Publication: Can you weld on Mars?
NASA fastener design manual
NASA Tire Assault Vehicle (TAV), made from a German World War II tank model

[MeJasonT]

Scary, you have got to have some real trust in your techs putting it back together

[Toolmaker51]

Scary, you have got to have some real trust in your techs putting it back together

Especially if it's Friday. Guy in Hawaiian shirt = pure trouble!
It's Monday? Even worse.

[MeJasonT]

There is an MP stood to the right of the picture and to be honest the whole team look like they are out of dress apart from him. Check out the shoes (not boots). i gave the guy in the shirt an excuse that he was wearing a rag over is work dress to stop him getting covered in oil. Problem is one is wearing Italian designer shoes and the other is wearing deck shoes. What a rabble, Hula shirts all round - apart from the guy in stripes.

[greyhoundollie]

But you never know. I spent a few trips over to NASA in the 1970's when the Air force was buying similar computer systems from the same supplier NASA was using.

The NASA manager at Moffett Field in California told me about one janitor that had an interest in lighting systems. He had ask to, and was given the job of, building a lighting system for the flight systems which simulated the night time run way lighting displays for the flight simulators.

The 4 guys in that picture could actually be the guys who designed and built that plane for NASA. NASA wasn't real big on uniforms if you weren't an Astronaut.