AeronauticsBlooming 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...The electric motors for X-57’s Mod II vehicle and their propellers were powered up and spun together for the first...The pilot of NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology, or QueSST, aircraft will navigate the skies in a cockpit unlike any...Before the next astronauts set foot on the Moon, they'll need to learn how to land their spacecraft on the...NEAT tests megawatt-scale electric aircraft power systems. NEAT also includes a vacuum chamber, where this photo perspective was taken from,...City life has its challenges. The crowds, the traffic, pedestrians at the mercy of the weather … and drones –...NASA pilot Nils Larson evaluates software in the X-59 simulator that could predict where sonic booms would be felt on...NASA pilot Nils Larson evaluates software in the X-59 simulator that could predict where sonic booms would be felt on...Using the schlieren photography technique, NASA was able to capture the first air-to-air images of the interaction of shockwaves from...One of the greatest challenges of the fourth phase of Air-to-Air Background Oriented Schlieren flights, or AirBOS flight series was...Using the schlieren photography technique, NASA was able to capture the first air-to-air images of the interaction of shockwaves from...
