Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. QSRA (NASA-715) carrier trials onboard Kitty Hawk off San Diego, CA (Quiet Short-Haul Aircraft is a modified C-8A) It’s not every ...

In the 1970s and 1980s, NASA quietly developed one of the strangest aircraft ever to fly, the Quiet Short-Haul Research Aircraft, or QSRA. Built from salvaged components of other programs to keep ...

NASA’s Quiet Short-Haul Research Aircraft was designed to navigate inner-city airports in dense population centers.