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A Learjet 24 and an Air Force T-37 meet in the skies over NASA Dryden for a series of flights to study the hazards of wake vortex generated by large aircraft. Studies conducted from the late 1960s to 1974 used large aircraft as wake generators and smaller instrumented aircraft such as the Learjet and T-37 were flown into the vortices to determine vortex strength and safe separation distances. The 747 is the same one acquired by NASA and later modified to carry space shuttles.

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The fleet number on the nose landing gear doors, "670," identifies this aircraft as an American Airlines Boeing 747-123, registered as N9670. It would later enter service with Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) as Clipper Empress of the Skies. She'd later be converted into a freighter configuration (747-100(SF)) for operation bu United Parcel Service (UPS), and later, Polar Air Cargo, re-registered as N858FT.

A Rambler Classic, possibly a 1964. Brand new Pan Am Boeing 747's in the background.