{"id":227617,"date":"2018-06-28T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T17:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/afrc2018-0127-12.jpg"},"modified":"2024-01-18T17:25:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T22:25:12","slug":"nasas-unmanned-ikhana-flies-national-airspace-without-chase-plane-4","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-detail\/nasas-unmanned-ikhana-flies-national-airspace-without-chase-plane-4\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA’s Unmanned Ikhana Flies in National Airspace Without Chase Plane"},"author":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nasa_hds_core_meta_l10n":"en-US","nasa_hds_core_meta_article_editor":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_article_contacts":[],"nasa_hds_core_meta_article_topic":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_linked_locations":[],"nasa_hds_core_meta_article_related_articles":[],"hds_migrate_meta_pr_release_id":"","hds_migrate_meta_pr_release_type":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_location_x":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_location_y":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_gallery_images":[],"nasa_hds_core_meta_video_cc_file_id":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_audio_cc_file_id":""},"media-tags":[10822,12276],"read_time":1,"video_cc_url":"","audio_cc_url":"","credits":"NASA \/ Ken Ulbrich","original_date":{"stamp":0,"display":""},"description":{"rendered":"<p class=\"attachment\"><a href='https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/afrc2018-0127-12.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/afrc2018-0127-12.jpg?w=300\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Ikhana taking off on June 12 flight.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/afrc2018-0127-12.jpg 1041w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/afrc2018-0127-12.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/afrc2018-0127-12.jpg?resize=768,513 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/afrc2018-0127-12.jpg?resize=1024,684 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/afrc2018-0127-12.jpg?resize=400,267 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/afrc2018-0127-12.jpg?resize=600,401 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/afrc2018-0127-12.jpg?resize=900,601 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>AFRC2018-0217-12<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NASA’s Ikhana aircraft, based at the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, takes off on June 12, 2018, for the agency’s first large-scale, remotely-piloted aircraft flight in the national airspace without a safety chase aircraft. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-flies-large-unmanned-aircraft-in-public-airspace-without-chase-plane-for-first\">successful flight moved the United States one step closer<\/a> to normalizing unmanned aircraft operations in the airspace used by commercial and private pilots.<\/p>\n<p>Flying these large remotely-piloted aircraft over the United States opens the doors to all types of services, from monitoring and fighting forest fires, to providing new emergency search and rescue operations. The technology in this aircraft could, at some point, be scaled down for use in other general aviation aircraft.<\/p>\n<p><strong>June 12, 2018<br \/>\nNASA Photo \/ Ken Ulbrich<\/strong><\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Ikhana aircraft, based at the agency\u2019s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, takes off on June 12, 2018, for the agency\u2019s first large-scale, remotely-piloted aircraft flight in the national airspace without a safety chase aircraft.<\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"Ikhana taking off on June 12 flight.","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","media_details":{"width":1041,"height":695,"file":"2023\/03\/afrc2018-0127-12.jpg","filesize":59285,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"afrc2018-0127-12.jpg?resize=150,150","width":150,"height":150,"filesize":59285,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/afrc2018-0127-12.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1"},"medium":{"file":"afrc2018-0127-12.jpg?resize=300,200","width":300,"height":200,"filesize":59285,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/afrc2018-0127-12.jpg?w=300"},"medium_large":{"file":"afrc2018-0127-12.jpg?resize=768,513","width":768,"height":513,"filesize":59285,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/afrc2018-0127-12.jpg?w=1024"},"large":{"file":"afrc2018-0127-12.jpg?resize=1024,684","width":1024,"height":684,"filesize":59285,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/afrc2018-0127-12.jpg?w=1024"},"thumbnail-sm":{"file":"afrc2018-0127-12.jpg?resize=50,50","width":50,"height":50,"filesize":59285,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/afrc2018-0127-12.jpg?w=50&h=50&crop=1"},"thumbnail-md":{"file":"afrc2018-0127-12.jpg?resize=100,100","width":100,"height":100,"filesize":59285,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/afrc2018-0127-12.jpg?w=100&h=100&crop=1"},"thumbnail-lg":{"file":"afrc2018-0127-12.jpg?resize=200,200","width":200,"height":200,"filesize":59285,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/afrc2018-0127-12.jpg?w=200&h=200&crop=1"},"card-xsm":{"file":"afrc2018-0127-12.jpg?resize=400,267","width":400,"height":267,"filesize":59285,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/afrc2018-0127-12.jpg?w=400"},"card-sm":{"file":"afrc2018-0127-12.jpg?resize=600,401","width":600,"height":401,"filesize":59285,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/afrc2018-0127-12.jpg?w=600"},"card-md":{"file":"afrc2018-0127-12.jpg?resize=900,601","width":900,"height":601,"filesize":59285,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/afrc2018-0127-12.jpg?w=900"},"full":{"file":"afrc2018-0127-12.jpg","width":1024,"height":684,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/afrc2018-0127-12.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"NASA\/Ken Ulbrich","camera":"","caption":"NASA\u2019s Ikhana aircraft, based at the agency\u2019s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, takes off for the agency\u2019s first large-scale, remotely-piloted aircraft flight in the national airspace without a safety chase aircraft.","created_timestamp":"1528783593","copyright":"NASA","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"NASA\u2019s Ikhana Aircraft During Takeoff for June 12 Flight","orientation":"0","keywords":["Armstrong Flight Research Center","AFRC","UAS NAS","Ikhana"]},"credits":"NASA \/ Ken Ulbrich","original_date":{"stamp":0,"display":""}},"post":null,"source_url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/afrc2018-0127-12.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/attachment"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"media-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-tags?post=227617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}