AeronauticsNASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center engineers are working on an increasingly complex aircraft called the Preliminary Research Aerodynamic Design to...In the wake of recent success with air-to-air schlieren photography using the speckled desert floor as a background, researchers at...Using a massive update to a 150-year-old German photography technique, NASA and the United States Air Force recently released what's...On August 19, 2015, thousands of people celebrated National Aviation Day by "spreading their wings" and learning about how NASA...In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt designated August 19 as National Aviation Day in honor of Orville Wright’s birthday, directing...The D-558-I "Skystreaks" were among the early transonic research airplanes like the X-1, X-4, X-5, and XF-92A.In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt designated August 19 as National Aviation Day in honor of Orville Wright’s birthday, directing...In 1943, Orville Wright (third from left in straw hat) visited the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory in Cleveland, now known...See a winglet and you're seeing NASA-developed technology at work saving fuel and reducing emissions.The Virginia Air & Space Center in Hampton, VA, is the official Visitor's Center for NASA's Langley Research Center.NASA researchers will be flying a DC-8 research plane, outfitted with state-of the-art radar and sophisticated meteorological probes to detect...The D-558-I "Skystreaks" were among the early transonic research airplanes like the X-1, X-4, X-5, and XF-92A.The Douglas D-558-II "Skyrockets" were among the early transonic research airplanes like the X-1, X-4, X-5, and X-92A.Dave Vos, project lead of Google's Project Wing, giving a keynote talk at the unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) Traffic Management...The Douglas D-558-II "Skyrockets" were among the early transonic research airplanes like the X-1, X-4, X-5, and X-92A.Jaiwon Shin, NASA Associate Administrator, Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, speaks at the UAS Traffic Management (UTM) Convention on July 28,...Gur Kimchi, vice president and co-founder of Prime Air for Amazon in Seattle, giving a keynote talk at the unmanned...Officials welcome unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) stakeholders to the UAS Traffic Management (UTM) ConventionThe Douglas D-558-II "Skyrockets" were among the early transonic research airplanes like the X-1, X-4, X-5, and X-92AIn collaboration with NASA, Pratt & Whitney developed its PurePower family of turbofan engines, which are more fuel-efficient and quieter...Pushing the Limits to Protect Aircraft EnginesNASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, used an F-18 Hornet fighter aircraft as its High Angle-of-Attack (Alpha) Research Vehicle...NASA pilot Jim Less and photographer Jim Ross pull their F-15D #897 aircraft away from a KC-135 refueling tanker. NASA...A NASA F-15D flies chase for the G-III Adaptive Compliant Trailing Edge (ACTE) project. The ACTE experimental flight research project...Two North American F-107A airplanes were flown at NACA/NASA High-Speed Flight Station starting November 1957 and continuing until September 1959....Researchers from NASA's Langley Research Center are in Shreveport, Louisiana, with the Boeing ecoDemonstrator 757 aircraft looking for bugs. They...The Douglas Aircraft Company built four F5D-1 Skylancers. They were built for the Navy as an all-weather fighter interceptor that...A team at NASA's Langley Research Center is developing a concept of a battery-powered plane that has 10 engines and...The Douglas Aircraft Company built four F5D-1 Skylancers. They were built for the Navy as an all-weather fighter interceptor that...In this photo taken from a chase plane, the Boeing ecoDemonstrator 757 flight test airplane --with NASA's Active Flow Control...The X-56A Multi-Utility Technology Testbed (MUTT) is greeted on an Edwards Air Force Base runway by a U.S. Air Force...From mid-1979 to January 1983, two remotely piloted, experimental Highly Maneuverable Aircraft Technology (HiMAT) vehicles were used at the NASA...X-56A Multi-Utility Technology Testbed is welcomed home by an AFRL team member.The X-51A successfully made the longest supersonic combustion ramjet-powered hypersonic flight to date off the southern California coast on May...This future aircraft design concept for supersonic flight over land comes from the team led by the Lockheed Martin Corporation....This 1961 photograph from NASA's Langley Research Center pictures a .005 inch x 1 inch supersonic transport scale model for...Earlier this fall, a subscale model of a potential future low-boom supersonic aircraft designed by The Boeing Company was installed...On March 3, 2015, hundreds gathered at an AIAA-organized event at the National Air & Space Museum in Washington, DC,...In this 1945 photo, test pilots (from left) Mel Gough, Herb Hoover, Jack Reeder, Steve Cavallo and Bill Gray stand...Our ability to fly at supersonic speeds over land in civil aircraft depends on our ability to reduce the level...
