AeronauticsToday 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...One of the greatest challenges of the fourth phase of the Air-to-Air Background Oriented Schlieren flights, or AirBOS flight series...When aircraft fly faster than the speed of sound, shockwaves travel away from the vehicle, and are heard on the...NASA is preparing to explore electric-powered flight with the X-57 Maxwell, a unique all-electric aircraft which features 14 propellers along...For most of human history, we mortals have dreamed of taking to the skies. Then, 115 years ago on on...This image of the horizon was seen from the cockpit of NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center’s F/A-18 research aircraft during...A 10-percent-scale High-Lift version of the NASA Common Research Model (CRM-HL) is currently being tested in Langley’s 14-by-22-Foot Subsonic Tunnel.Pictured, a Lockheed Martin technician at their Palmdale, California, facility prepares a machine to shave the first piece of NASA’s...Two Ames mechanics inspect the Tiltrotor Test Rig 20 feet above the wind tunnel floor in the U.S. Air Force’s...NASA will fly its supersonic F/A-18 jet over the Gulf of Mexico while researchers measure public response to the aircraft’s...This image from March 1962 shows an X-15 aircraft model, as shock waves surround the small scale object in the...Eisenhower’s joint chiefs chairman toured the center to see the latest propulsion and aeronautic research advances.NASA Administrator Bridenstine (right) at FutureFlight Central.NASA’s Ikhana aircraft, based at the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, takes off on June 12, 2018,...To address the expected noise levels of future aircraft, NASA’s Commercial Supersonic Technology project is already developing technologies focused on...Aeronautical innovations are part of a government-industry partnership to collect data that could make supersonic flight over land possible, dramatically...High-fidelity 3D-printed models with fold-back blades have helped researchers find and solve issues associated with integrating the motors onto a...The Electron Beam Freeform Fabrication, or EBF3, system -- at the time referred to as being like a “Star Trek”...Researcher Karen Taminger (left) and former Deputy Administrator Lori Garver in 2011 show off an Electron Beam Freeform Fabrication, or...A computer generated illustration of growing carbon nanotubes.
