NASA’s DC-8 to Fly Low-Altitude Over Central Valley, CA

NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center’s DC-8 aircraft will fly over Central Valley and surroundings areas as part of an air quality field study. Residents in the areas below will see and hear the aircraft as it flies to achieve these measurements.

DC-8 lifts off from Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, Calif. NASA/Carla Thomas
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