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A Final 'Goodbye' to the Langley Full-Scale Tunnel
Alumni gather to celebrate the 78-year history of the Langley Full-Scale Tunnel.
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Aviation Pioneer Richard T. Whitcomb
Richard T. Whitcomb has been called the most significant aerodynamic contributor of the second half of the 20th century.
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A Celebration of the Full Scale Tunnel, Not a Funeral
The end of the Full Scale Tunnel prompts a look at history, but those who worked there say that their focus was never back, always forward.
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From Nothing, Something: One Layer at a Time
A manufacturing process using electron beams works sort of like a Star Trek replicator and could mean big cost and environmental benefits for aviation.
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Test of X-48C is Historic Wind Tunnel's Swan Song
A historic NASA wind tunnel is pressed into service one last time to help test the prototype of a new, more fuel-efficient, quieter aircraft design.
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Rewarding Not Faster or Higher, but Safer Flight
NASA Langley's contribution to answering a challenge issued by then-Vice President Al Gore in 1997 was recognized Tuesday night, when the center's members of the Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST) were honored for their role in earning the 2008 Robert J. Collier Trophy.
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NASA Launches New Technology: An Inflatable Heat Shield
A successful NASA flight test Monday demonstrated how a spacecraft returning to Earth can use an inflatable heat shield to slow and protect itself as it enters the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds.
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NASA at EAA AirVenture
Visitors to EAA AirVenture see aircraft of all shapes and sizes, including homebuilts, like these.
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NASA at EAA AirVenture
Shuttle Flight Director Paul Dye narrated the July 31 shuttle landing live to a packed audience at the NASA pavilion.
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NASA at EAA AirVenture
A Grumman F4F Wildcat.
Credit: NASA/Kathy Barnstorff