NASA Aeronautics Technical Excellence
Presented here are a collection of hand-picked stories that showcase the aviation technology NASA is working on — or has worked on and turned over to others for use in the National Airspace System. This page will be updated with new content at the beginning of each month.
Hybrid-electric cars have been a staple of the road for many years now. Soon that same idea of a part-electric-,…
On Sept. 13, 1944, researchers subjected a Bell P-39L Airacobra to frigid temperatures and a freezing water spray in the…
Just like your smartphone navigation app can instantly analyze information from many sources to suggest the best route to follow,…
A new custom virtual reality flight simulator built by NASA researchers will allow them to explore how passengers experience air…
At a simulated 27,500 feet inside an altitude chamber at NASA’s Electric Aircraft Testbed (NEAT) facility, engineers at magniX recently…
NASA and its international partners are using the same generically shaped wing design to create physical and digital research models…
NASA has created a new digital modelling tool for aeronautical engineers to innovate new aircraft designs, building on decades of…
NASA’s investment in a breakthrough superalloy developed for the extreme temperatures and harsh conditions of air and spaceflight is on…
Located inside a high-tech NASA laboratory in Cleveland is something you could almost miss at first glance: a small-scale, fully…
The final downlink shift by the Ingenuity team was a time to reflect on a highly successful mission — and…
A six-person team of researchers from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, will travel to Fort Drum, N.Y., to…
Several air taxi companies are using a NASA-developed computer software tool to predict aircraft noise and aerodynamic performance. This tool…