The unusual looking, vertical take-off and landing tailsitter is only an idea, but you'd never know that from the attention the Puffin has gotten on the Internet.
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The Puffin: A Passion for Personal Flight
Envisioning Future Flight
NASA's Fundamental Aeronautics Student Competition challenges participants to design aircraft of the future.
ERA Challenge: Generate Real Solutions for Aviation's ...
On Tuesday, Fay Collier spoke to NASA Langley’s January Colloquium audience, not so much as a visionary but as manager of a five-year project with a challenge of coming up with quieter, more fuel ...
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NASA Research Pilots Now in Aviation Hall of Fame
Two retired research pilots who logged more than 16,000 flight hours between them at NASA Langley are now in the Virginia Aviation Hall of Fame.
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Chopper Drop Tests New Technology
NASA researchers dropped a small helicopter from 35 feet to see if a deployable energy absorber could lessen the destructive force of a crash.
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NASA Langley Fosters Ownership of Energy Management
According to the Department of Energy (DOE), the Federal Government spends more than $9 billion to power its vehicles, operations and approximately 500,000 facilities throughout the United States, making it the single largest domestic user of energy.
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Seeing Ares I-X Is Believing for Langley Participants
Henry Wright sat on the front row of the Pearl Young Theater four hours a day for two days, alternately working a laptop computer and a cell phone. On Wednesday, he put them down and watched Ares I-X become history.
