NASA Boeing 757 - N557NA

NASA brought this highly instrumented Boeing 757 to Oshkosh this year. The interior was really interesting, most of the passenger seats had been removed and replaced with a huge amount of computer equipment (including an SGI Challenge mini-supercomputer!). The plane is used for various missions, including some testing of anti-skid braking under real-life conditions.

A note about the photographs: if a thumbnail picture is a link, clicking on it will load an image approximately 500x300 pixels large (~60Kb). Under some thumbnails is the word "huge". Clicking there will load the original scanned image of about 800x500 pixels at JPEG 75% quality (~200Kb).

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