Advanced Air Vehicles Program GalleryDon Durston never grew out of building model planes – they’re just a whole lot more sophisticated these days! The...Instrumentation Technician, Michael “Mick” Hodgins, performs installation measures on the trans-sonic truss-braced wing (TTBW) model in NASA Langley Research Center’s...NASA and industry partners are working towards a future that sees aviation meet cleaner sustainability standards. To that end, new...An array of 960 microphones is seen here off the end of runway 11 at Boeing’s research facility near Glasgow,...The Subsonic Ultra Green Aircraft Research (SUGAR) Project is a multiphase, collaborative research project conducted by NASA and Boeing Research...Airborne Background Oriented Schlieren Imaging (AirBOS) is a method used to visualize the shockwaves (if going fast enough) and vortices...Using the schlieren photography technique, NASA was able to capture the first air-to-air images of the interaction of shockwaves from...One of the greatest challenges of the fourth phase of Air-to-Air Background Oriented Schlieren flights, or AirBOS flight series was...Using the schlieren photography technique, NASA was able to capture the first air-to-air images of the interaction of shockwaves from...One of the greatest challenges of the fourth phase of the Air-to-Air Background Oriented Schlieren flights, or AirBOS flight series...When aircraft fly faster than the speed of sound, shockwaves travel away from the vehicle, and are heard on the...The Subsonic Ultra Green Aircraft Research (SUGAR) Project is a multiphase, collaborative research project conducted by NASA and Boeing Research...Earlier this fall, a subscale model of a potential future low-boom supersonic aircraft designed by The Boeing Company was installed...Composites Consortium team members gathered during May 2024 at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia for a technical review of...Engineers at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., recently installed this 15-percent scale model based on a possible future...Advanced Composites Consortium team members gathered during May 2025 at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia for a technical review...Members of NASA’s Advanced Composites Consortium, including representatives from NASA, the Federal Aviation Administration, Boeing, Spirit Aerosystems, Collins Aerospace, Northrop...A rotor test stand sits inside the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex's 80-by-120-foot wind tunnel at NASA's Ames Research Center in...To help develop more efficient rotorcraft designs, engineers need to better understand the complex airflow interactions caused by the spinning...Researchers in the Rotary Wing Project in NASA's Fundamental Aeronautics Program are developing advanced computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods to...
