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The Hybrid Wing Body H-Series future aircraft design concept comes from the research team led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Aircraft that might fly in the years ahead.

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X-48 Blended Wing Body

Scale model of a blended wing aircraft.

Follow the X-48 through testing and flight.

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Distinguished by its large nose payload bay, NASA's Ikhana unmanned aircraft does an engine run prior to takeoff from General Atomics' Grey Butte airfield.
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Photos of aircraft flying at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center

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Aerion Corporation's test article used in the initial Supersonic Boundary Layer Transition flight test project in 2010 is shown attached to the Centerline Instrumented Pylon slung beneath NASA's F-15B research aircraft.

Second Set of SBLT Tests Planned on NASA's F-15B

Aerion Corporation plans flight tests of a representative airfoil for its proposed supersonic bizjet this summer on NASA Dryden's F-15B Test Bed.

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Vehicles that operate in the NextGen could look a little bit like what we see today, but with some major differences such as the boxed wing and the placement of the engines, which dramatically reduce drag and increase fuel efficiency.

8 Questions about NextGen, Part 2

Don't get too used to the airplanes you see today because things are changing.

HIFiRE launches an experimental hypersonic scramjet from the Pacific Missile Range Facility

HIFiRE Scramjet Research Flight Will Advance ...

The Hypersonic International Flight Research Experimentation (HIFiRE) team celebrates the successful launch of an experimental hypersonic scramjet.

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Tests of scale models like this one in a supersonic wind tunnel at NASA's Ames Research Center help researchers understand the forces acting on the aircraft that create sonic booms.

Sonic Boom Heads for a Thump

NASA is closer to defining how loud a sonic boom can "boom" without becoming a bother.

NASA's Ikhana, a modified General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-9 Predator B, conducts engine run-up before a pre-dawn takeoff on the first test flight of the new ADS-B aircraft tracking technology on an unmanned aircraft system.

NASA Flight Tests New ADS-B Device on Ikhana UAS

NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center conducts first checkout flight of ADS-B Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast device on medium-class UAS.

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    You Have the Controls!
    Sector 33 mobile app now ready for landing on your iPhone or iPad.
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    New Future Aircraft Images
    First five images in the Down to Earth Future Aircraft Gallery are brand new.
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Test Your Knowledge

    NASA and the Air Force have successfully concluded a new test of a rocket-mounted hypersonic scramjet. What is the best fuel researchers think could one day propel vehicles at Mach 5 and faster?

    Liquid nitrogen
    Hydrogen
    Hydrocarbons
    Oxy-Kerosene
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The NASA meatball takes shape brick by brick thanks to hundreds of pieces of LEGO.
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Reaching Out, Flying High

Young visitors to the NASA aeronautics exhibit at the Joint Services Open House and Air Show in May near Washington, D.C., display their new body art.
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