AeronauticsNACA 20-Foot Free-Spinning Wind Tunnel, NASA LangleyA view from the front office of a Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner during a recent series of test flights in which...Sunset at Boeing’s research facility near Glasgow, Montana, where this 787-10 Dreamliner on loan from Etihad Airways served as the...A 787-10 Dreamliner on loan from Etihad Airways for Boeing’s 2020 ecoDemonstrator program makes a low pass over a collection...An array of 960 microphones is seen here off the end of runway 11 at Boeing’s research facility near Glasgow,...NASA worked with Boeing to wire more than 200 microphones to the outside skin of this 787-10 Dreamliner on loan...This visualization is generated from a supercomputer simulation of the X-57 “Maxwell” electric experimental aircraft. Just as electric cars are...A Consolidated B-24D Liberator (left), Boeing B-29 Superfortress (background), and Lockheed RA-29 Hudson (foreground) parked inside the Flight Research Building...The wing and cockpit sections of NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) are coming together at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works®...A Prandtl-M prototype is air launched from the Carbon Cub aircraft March 13, 2020, at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center...Blooming roses at the Armstrong Flight Research Center highlighting the Bell X-IE aircraft.The Subsonic Ultra Green Aircraft Research (SUGAR) Project is a multiphase, collaborative research project conducted by NASA and Boeing Research...Telemetry testing begins on the X-57 Maxwell, NASA’s first all-electric X-plane, as the operations crew at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research...Four passengers participate in a simulation of an air taxi ride at NASA's Vertical Motion Simulator, or VMS. Located at...NASA is making progress on the road to first flight for the agency’s first all-electric X-plane, and first piloted X-plane...NASA illustration of an advanced subsonic aircraft with an Electrified Aircraft Propulsion system.Researchers Jeffrey Homola and Mark Snycerski observe simulated Urban Air Mobility (UAM) operations taking place in San Francisco on displays...Aerospace Cognitive Engineering Lab Rapid Automation Test Environment (ACELeRATE)FutureFlight Central UAM San Francisco city view.The X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology, or QueSST, wing assembly is lifted by a crane and moved to another area of...NASA pilot Nils Larson checks out the NASA F/A-18 aircraft before he climbs into the cockpit.Supercomputers help researchers study the aerodynamic effects of the unique propulsion system of NASA's first crewed X-plane in more than...Airborne Background Oriented Schlieren Imaging (AirBOS) is a method used to visualize the shockwaves (if going fast enough) and vortices...NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine got a firsthand look at the agency’s all-electric X-57 Maxwell in its first of three configurations...NASA’s all-electric X-57 Maxwell, in its Mod II configuration, arrives at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. The...In the high desert of California, some of the most important aircraft in aviation history have been built and flown....NASA’s X-57 Maxwell, the agency’s first all-electric X-plane and first crewed X-planed in two decades, is delivered to NASA’s Armstrong...An artist rendering of NASA’s STARC-ABL concept hybrid-electric propulsion aircraft.NASA’s Low Boom Flight Demonstration Mission is beginning to plan and prepare for a series of tests using the X-59...Today is National Aviation Day and progress is ongoing in the next evolution of air mobility – all thanks to...The next great leap in aviation is expected to bring us more and more autonomous aircraft. NASA is taking the...NASA's 2017 astronaut candidates toured aircraft hangar at Armstrong Flight Research Center, in Southern California. After tour of aircraft hangar...NASA's 2017 astronaut candidates (L to R) Bob Hines, Matthew Dominick and Jasmin Moghbeli practice flying in X-57 aircraft simulator...For NASA Wallops Flight Facility research pilot Rich Rogers, July 26 brought an end to one of the things in...Wide eyes and smiles. A common sight from the thousands of innovation enthusiasts visiting the NASA Pavilion at EAA AirVenture...A drone moves high above downtown Reno, Nevada on the afternoon of June 23, 2019 as part of NASA’s TCL-4...A full-scale model of Langley Aerodrome No. 8 is being constructed at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.NASA and industry partners really got to know the streets of Reno, Nevada during the past few weeks. During June...Brad Petty from Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation attaches a winglet to the TigerShark upon arrival at NASA Armstrong Flight Research...Brad Petty from Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation attaches a winglet to the TigerShark upon arrival at NASA Armstrong Flight Research...
