Dec 17 1998
From The Space Library
NASA's tailless, single-engine, 18-foot-long (5.5-meter-long) X-36 airplane resumed flight-testing a system to help a damaged airplane continue its flight. Over a 20-minute period, a pilot used remote control from the ground to fly the plane, sending signals to simulate damage. The first in a series of five to 10 flights, the test was part of Reconfigurable Control for Tailless Fighter Aircraft (RESTORE). RESTORE was testing neural-network software that permitted a plane to reconfigure flight-control surfaces automatically. The software would have both civil and military applications.
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