AeronauticsFormer flight test instructor and current NASA test pilot Nils Larson reunited with former student and current astronaut Victor Glover...Advanced Air Mobility, with its many vehicle concepts and potential uses in both local and intraregional applications, is shown in...This is the livery for the X-66A, the aircraft that will be produced by NASA and Boeing through the agency’s...GE Aerospace and magniX paint schemes of the hybrid electric aircraft they will fly as part of NASA’s Electrified Powertrain...University students and staff from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were part of an industry-led team that developed this future...Chevron nozzles—the saw-toothed edges on the back of this jet engine—followed the TRL roadmap and are now seen on engines...The nine Technology Readiness Levels illustrated here were invented by NASA and gained widespread support within industry during the 1990s.DC-8 lifts off from Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, Calif.Several projects supporting NASA's Advanced Air Mobility or AAM mission are working on different elements to help make AAM a...NASA X video series logoAs NASA Aeronautics senior writer Jim Banke tells his grandson, Axel, about two recently concluded research projects involving drones large...Members of a University Leadership Initiative round one team led by Texas A&M University participate in a status update meeting...University Leadership Initiative student participants work inside an air traffic management simulator used to train future air traffic controllers at...Students Ken McGill (left) and Nozhan Hosseini from the University of South Carolina conduct research inside an aircraft maintenance hangar...From left, students Alec Schnabel, James Swanke, and Rob Borjas work on a NASA University Leadership Initiative project led by...Artist concept of commercial aircraft families with a Transonic Truss-Braced Wing configuration from the Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project.NASA's DC-8 flying science laboratory is seen in this photo illustration in which the sky has been replaced.X-66AIllustration of an Unmanned Aircraft System, or drone, in front of a smoke-filled sky. A goal of the Scalable Traffic...In this illustration Ibrahim Yimer, the National Research Council of Canada’s director general of the Aerospace Research Center (left), and...Research students from the University of Tennessee, who are working to design an ultra-efficient wing as part of the school’s...A view from the front office of a Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner during a recent series of test flights in which...Left to right: workhorse F-15B #836, "Mr. Bones" F-15D #884, and "2nd to None" F-15D #897 on the back ramp...This graphic highlights examples of NASA-developed technology deployed on military fighter jets today.This graphic highlights examples of NASA-developed technology deployed on general aviation aircraft today.This graphic highlights examples of NASA-developed technology deployed on commercial airliners today.This graphic highlights examples of NASA-developed technology deployed on civilian rotorcraft today.The X-66A is the X-plane specifically aimed at helping the United States achieve the goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions...Macro Photographs of 3D Print of NASA Meatball - Made out of GRX-810, an Oxide Dispersion Strengthened (ODS) High Temperature...NASA Partners With Airlines to Save Fuel, Reduce Flight DelaysComponent-level combustor research, design, and testing enables future, more sustainable small-core turbofan engines.NASA Research Lab Mechanic Sage Amato inspects hybrid-electric components and cables in NASA’s Electrified Testbed (NEAT) facility in Sandusky, Ohio...Before the X-59 flies, NASA researchers are getting ahead of the curve by using computational fluid dynamics to create what...NASA’s X-59 sits in support framing while undergoing the installation of its lower empennage, or tail section, at Lockheed Martin...NASA’s X-59 has undergone final installation of its lower empennage, better known as the tail assembly. NASA’s X-59 has undergone...Ingenuity Helicopter Lifts Off with Support from Ames AeronauticsInstallation of the Douglas A-26B airplane in the 40x80 foot wind tunnel at NACA's Ames Research Center. Airplane being centered...O-47A airplane arrival at Ames Aeronautical Lab The O-47A was Ames first test plane