Stock Photo - This NASA Ames_Dryden Flight Research Facility photograph shows a modified General Dynamics AFTI/F_111A Aardvark with supercritical mission adaptive wings MAW installed. The Aircraft is in a banking turn towards Rogers Dry Lake and Edwards Air Force Base, California.With the phasing out of the TACT program came a renewed effort by the Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory to extend supercritical wing technology to a higher level of performance. In the early 1980s the supercritical wing on the F_111A aircraft was replaced with a wing built by Boeing Aircraft Company System called a “mission adaptive wing” MAW, and a joint NASA and Air Force program called Advanced Fighter Technology Integration AFTI was born.