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NASA, Partners Explore Sustainable Fuel’s Effects on Aircraft Contrails

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Contrails, the lines of clouds from high-flying aircraft that crisscross the skies, are familiar sights, but they may have an…

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NASA C-130 Makes First-Ever Flight to Antarctica for GUSTO Balloon Mission

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On Oct. 28, 2023, NASA’s C-130 Hercules and crew safely touched down at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, after an around-the-globe journey to deliver the…

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Forget Movie Magic, NASA Armstrong has the Real Thing

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Early in the blockbuster movie “Top Gun: Maverick,” U.S. Navy Captain Pete “Maverick” Mitchell takes the secret hypersonic “Darkstar” airplane…

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NASA to Showcase Revolutionary Aero Tech at Aviation Day Event

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NASA to Showcase Revolutionary Aero Tech at Aviation Day Event

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95 years ago: First Human Rocket-Powered Aircraft Flight

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The idea of rocket propelled aircraft originated in the automobile racing world and saw its first application on June 11,…

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Wallops Hosts Thunderbirds During Ocean City Air Show

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The United States Air Force Thunderbirds arrived at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility this week. The flight teams are stationed at…

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Flying with NASA – Digital-Fly-By-Wire

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One of NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center’s greatest contributions to commercial aviation is something that passengers never see – digital…

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What is the Vertical Motion Simulator?

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The world’s largest flight simulator for high-fidelity testing of new and experimental aircraft and spacecraft designs Driven by powerful motors…

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Keeping NASA Armstrong Aircraft Safe

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Flying unique, one-of-a-kind aircraft is one of the specialties of NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. A process,…

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NASA’s X-59 Tail Installed

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NASA’s X-59 has undergone final installation of its lower empennage, better known as the tail assembly. NASA’s X-59 has undergone…

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NASA’s ER-2 Completes Snowstorm Study Support

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NASA’s ER-2 high-altitude aircraft, based at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Palmdale, California, completed more than 30 flights in…

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NASA’s Retired SOFIA Aircraft Finds New Home at Arizona Museum

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NASA’s now-retired Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) aircraft will find a permanent home in the Pima Air & Space…

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New NASA Aircraft Helps Researchers Evaluate Technologies for Urban Transport Systems

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When researchers test communications technology for the national airspace, they will be using a newly acquired tool at NASA’s Glenn…

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Jet Engine Installed on NASA’s X-59

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NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59 now has the engine that will power it in flight. The installation of the F414-GE-100 engine…

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NASA Armstrong Completes F/A-18E Tests

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Understanding what stress, or strain, an aircraft can endure is critical to carrying out its intended mission. To better understand…

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Congresswoman Eshoo Tours SOFIA Flying Observatory Upon Its Retirement

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On Oct. 14, 2022, Rep. Anna G. Eshoo and Eugene Tu, center director at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s…

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The NACA’s XF-82 Twin Mustang Returns to Flight After 70 Years

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On December 14, 1949, an XF-82 Twin Mustang aircraft hit patches of ice and skidded sideways off the runway after…

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NASA’s Super Guppy Delivers Rocket Test Article to Marshall

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Teams at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, unloaded the Orion stage adapter (OSA) structural test article from…

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NASA Flies Students on DC-8 to Study Air Quality

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A group of university students and mentors flew aboard NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center’s DC-8 aircraft to study air quality…

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NASA, Partner Decide to Conclude SOFIA Mission

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NASA and its partners at the German Space Agency at the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) will conclude…

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NASA’s X-59 Arrives Back in California Following Critical Ground Tests

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The X-59, NASA’s quiet supersonic experimental aircraft, has arrived back at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California, following…

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NASA’s ER-2 No. 806 Returns to Flight

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NASA’s ER-2 high-altitude aircraft No. 806 returned to flight after three years of significant modifications and heavy maintenance. Flying from…

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NASA’s New Material Built to Withstand Extreme Conditions

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NASA innovators recently developed a new metal alloy using a 3D printing process that dramatically improves the strength and durability…

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NASA’s X-59 Calls on Texas for Key Testing

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It appears the road to enabling a future that includes convenient commercial supersonic air travel over land demands a substantial…

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NASA Planes Fly into Snowstorms to Study Snowfall

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Scientists repeatedly check the weather forecasts as they prepare aircraft for flight and perform last-minute checks on science instruments. There’s…

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Exploring Earth: Student Airborne Researchers fly on NASA’s DC-8

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After a year delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 53 students flew on NASA’s DC-8 as part of NASA’s Student…

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‘Roving With Perseverance’: NASA Mars Rover and Helicopter Models on Tour

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Catch Mars mania as a traveling exhibit visits more than a dozen towns across the U.S. with lifelike models of…

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X-59 Resembles Actual Aircraft

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A heavy chorus of bolting and machinery filled the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology, or QueSST, assembly building as engineers, system…

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NASA Retires a Research Workhorse

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When the U.S. Navy retired its fleet of S-3B Vikings from active duty in 2009, not all of them were…

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X-57 High-Voltage Testing Continues

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As the propellers on the X-57 Maxwell aircraft spin for the first time under electric power at NASA’s Armstrong Flight…

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