AeronauticsA sonic boom is caused by an object moving faster than sound. The shock waves created by the supersonic flight...This unique, close-up view of the X-38 under the wing of NASA's B-52 mothership prior to launch of the lifting-body...When new technologies for airplanes are developed, they need to be tested in wind tunnels to assess their effectiveness. Often,...Principles of air flow are explained to visitors to the wind tunnel exhibit at the USA Science and Engineering Festival,...The nose of an inflatable half-scale model of a NASA F/A-18 in front of the NASA Aeronautics exhibit points skyward...The Global Hawk is a robotic plane that can fly autonomously to altitudes above 60,000 feet - twice as high...NASA Adminstrator Charles F. Bolden speaks during the opening day of the Green Aviation Summit, hosted September 8-9, 2010.Testing advanced designs for high-speed aircraft in 1948, an engineer makes final calibrations to a model mounted in the 6...The unique XV-15 Tiltrotor aircraft is seen in vertical flight at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center.Langley researchers have been testing the Boeing Aerodynamic Efficiency Improvement Joined Wing Wind Tunnel Model in the Transonic Dynamics Tunnel....This flight is part of an ongoing series of flights which define and demonstrate the satellite communication (SATCOM) capabilities of...The Subsonic Ultra Green Aircraft Research, or SUGAR, Volt future aircraft design comes from the research team led by The...The Silent Efficient Low Emissions Commercial Transport, or SELECT, future aircraft design comes from the research team led by Northrop...The "double bubble" D8 Series future aircraft design concept comes from the research team led by the Massachusetts Institute of...This future aircraft design concept comes from the research team led by GE Aviation.The "Icon-II" future aircraft design concept for supersonic flight over land comes from the team led by The Boeing Company.This future aircraft design concept for supersonic flight over land comes from the team led by the Lockheed Martin Corporation....The X-51A successfully made the longest supersonic combustion ramjet-powered hypersonic flight to date off the southern California coast on May...Ames Deputy Center Director, Lew Braxton, visited with students from ACE Charter School in San Jose, Calif. who were learning...The mural was created to celebrate the achievements of Wilbur and Orville Wright and to commemorate a century of powered...The National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics, or NACA, which celebrates its 95th anniversary on March 3, provided the nation's earliest...A technician prepares to unlatch the door built into the guide vanes of the 16-Foot Transonic Wind Tunnel at NASA...A semispan airplane model and flow-direction vane mounted on the wing of a P-51D airplane for transonic tests by wing-flow...A view from 1944 of the NACA's Airplane Engine Research Laboratory (AERL) Icing Research Tunnel.These ice formations on the propeller and fuselage surfaces of a test unit installed in the Icing Research Tunnel at...In mid-1927, a Langley Laboratory researcher ponders the future of the Sperry M-1 Messenger, the first full-scale airplane tested in...Supersonic aircraft create a substantial sonic boom, meaning that they can't fly over populated areas without creating an intense noise...The wingless, lifting body aircraft sitting on Rogers Dry Lake at what is now NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards,...Richard C. Eldredge, Dale Reed, James O. Newman, and Bob McDonald with the mothership (top) and other models.Boeing Phantom Works has partnered with NASA and the Air Force Research Laboratory to study the Blended Wing Body advanced...A group picture of Douglas airplanes, taken for a photographic promotion in 1954, at what is now known as the...The X-2, initially an Air Force program, was scheduled to be transferred to the civilian National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics...The first flight of a large aircraft to be powered by electric fuel cells began with a takeoff at 8:43...This 1952 photograph shows the X-2 #2 aircraft mounted on a special transportation dolly at Edwards Air Force Base, CA.The first flight of a large aircraft to be powered by electric fuel cells began with a takeoff at 8:43...The Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1E airplane being loaded under the mothership, Boeing B-29.A Rotor Systems Research Aircraft (RSRA) is seen here on the ramp at the Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif.,...While workers on the ground steady the craft with guy ropes, workers atop a high-lift truck align the mounting plates...The first flight of a large aircraft to be powered by electric fuel cells began with a takeoff at 8:43...This photo of two swept-wing airplanes was taken on the ramp of the NACA High-Speed Flight Station.
