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For Langley Inventors, It's Mind Over Golf
The tall Australian, wearing three sensors on her forehead, takes a short practice swing with her putter. A soft voice on a recorder advises "relax ... breathe ... good." Katherine Hull putts the ball into the hole.
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With Every Beat, NASA Involved in How the Heart Behaves
Heart failure -- like structural failure in an aircraft -- is serious business.
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Air Power Over, In and Around Hampton Roads
Airplanes are coming out in full force this week for Hampton Roads residents' viewing pleasure – in the sky, on the ground and even on the big screen.
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NASA Flying Wing Model Soars into National Air and Space Museum
A flying model NASA built to research futuristic aircraft designs will spend its future in the United States' premier air and space museum.
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Nature and Man Is a Marriage Being Made in a Virginia Tech Lab
Just as nature abhors a vacuum, so too do engineers, which is why Leo and others at Virginia Tech have stepped up research efforts to try to bridge that gap between nature and man. Their mission is to take the best of both.
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The Quest: A Silent, Carbonless Airplane
It's a simple goal, really. A silent airplane that sends no carbon into the atmosphere.
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Testing Orion in a World Class Facility
Langley's National Transonic Facility has been used for investigating models of the space shuttle, the blended-wing body aircraft, a C-17 cargo plane and even a submarine. Now it's being used for the Constellation Program’s Orion Launch Abort Vehicle.
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Alternative Jet Fuels Put to the Test
NASA and 11 other research groups are testing two non-petroleum-based jet fuels in the pursuit of alternative fuels that can power commercial jets and address rising oil costs.
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Alternative Jet Fuels Put to the Test
NASA and 11 other research groups are testing two non-petroleum-based jet fuels in the pursuit of alternative fuels that can power commercial jets and address rising oil costs.
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National Aviation Day Highlights the Future of Flight
In the Visitors' Center, author and historian Tom Crouch stood in front of a replica of the Wright Brothers original plane and told an assembly the story of the beginning of manned flight.