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GE Aerospace and magniX have revealed the paint schemes of the hybrid electric aircraft they will fly as part of...
Artist illustration of the GE and magniX aircraft in flight in blue skies with white clouds.
This is the livery for the experimental X-66, the aircraft that will be produced by NASA and Boeing through the...
Artist illustration of a smaller commercial airliner flying above the clouds.
No, it’s not hypermodern art. This image from a simulation generated by NASA’s high-performance computers, shows a Transonic Truss Braced...
This image, shows a Transonic Truss Braced Wing (TTBW) aircraft and how its wings interact with the air around them. The dark red area along the front of the wing represents higher-speed airflow.
Sunset at Boeing’s research facility near Glasgow, Montana, where this 787-10 Dreamliner on loan from Etihad Airways served as the...
Sunset at Boeing’s research facility near Glasgow, Montana with the 787-10 Dreamliner parked on the tarmac.
A 787-10 Dreamliner on loan from Etihad Airways for Boeing’s 2020 ecoDemonstrator program makes a low pass over a collection...
ecoDemonstrator program makes a low pass over a collection of microphones just past the end of the runway at a research facility
An array of 960 microphones is seen here off the end of runway 11 at Boeing’s research facility near Glasgow,...
An array of 960 microphones is seen here off the end of runway 11 at Boeing’s research facility near Glasgow, Montana.
NASA worked with Boeing to wire more than 200 microphones to the outside skin of this 787-10 Dreamliner on loan...
NASA worked with Boeing to wire more than 200 microphones to the outside skin of this 787-10 Dreamliner on loan from Etihad Airways. There is an inset image showing the 787 in flight.
Researcher Rick Bozak inspects fan blade tips on a rotor installed in a test facility at NASA Glenn.
A researcher inspecting the fan blade tips on a rotor.
In an effort to improve fuel efficiency, NASA and the aircraft industry are rethinking aircraft design. Inside the 8’ x...
Inside the 8’ x 6’ wind tunnel at NASA Glenn, engineers recently tested a fan and inlet design, commonly called a propulsor
NASA and aviation industry partners are collaborating on the development of green aviation technologies that will improve fuel efficiency, reduce...
Pleiades simulation design for new aircraft propulsion system
Every bit of weight on an aircraft increases the fuel, emissions and money required to put it in the air.
Truss Braced Wing test in the 11-by 11-foot test section.
At a public forum in Florida, NASA shared results from this spring's testing under the Alternative Fuel Effects on Contrails...
ACCESS II, jet in the background with an inset photo on the talk on the results of the test.
The Alternative Fuel Effects on Contrails and Cruise Emissions, or ACCESS II, research campaign now underway in California involves ground...
Group photo of the ACCESS II Team.
This photo, taken from the CT-133 aircraft of research partner National Research Council of Canada, shows the NASA HU-25C Guardian...
CT-133 aircraft of research partner NRCC, shows the NASA HU-25C Guardian aircraft flying 250 meters behind NASA's DC-8 aircraft.
The electric motors for X-57’s Mod II vehicle and their propellers were powered up and spun together for the first...
NASA's all-electric X-57 Maxwell conducted high-voltage ground testing at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in California. The principal goals of...
The X-57 aircraft inside a hangar with the hangar door open.
X-57 high-lift propeller test in the LSAWT in B1220
X-57 Maxwell recently underwent wind tunnel testing at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.