AeronauticsAveraging a half-mile per gallon might seem unfathomable to most drivers, but for aircraft carrying hundreds of passengers at high...As NASA celebrates National Aviation Day, the agency's aeronautical innovators are working to transform air transportation to meet the future...NASA’s Scalable Convergent Electric Propulsion Technology and Operations Research (SCEPTOR) project has reached a critical milestone, where the electric propulsion...NASA and Partners Open New Research Lab at Charlotte Airport. NASA Aeronautics’ Shawn Engelland (right) briefs NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden...The NASA Wallops Flight Facility's C-130H Hercules dwarfs NASA Langley Research Center's Cirrus SR22 in the NASA Langley hangar in...NASA engineers say the X-57 Maxwell all-electric airplane, as shown in this artist’s rendering, is expected to validate research that...This artist's concept of NASA's X-57 Maxwell aircraft shows the plane's specially designed wing and 14 electric motors. NASA Aeronautics...With 14 electric motors turning propellers and all of them integrated into a uniquely-designed wing, NASA will test new propulsion...Through the UAS Traffic Management project, NASA engineers are thinking up ways to help drones become more widely used and...An Air Force Test Pilot School T-38C passes in front of the sun at a supersonic speed, creating shockwaves that...NASA and aviation industry partners are collaborating on the development of green aviation technologies that will improve fuel efficiency, reduce...F-15s on Armstrong RampJaiwon Shin, NASA’s associate administrator for aeronautics, wrapped up his tour of the agency’s four primary aeronautics centers with a...Every bit of weight on an aircraft increases the fuel, emissions and money required to put it in the air.The Subsonic Ultra Green Aircraft Research (SUGAR) Project is a multiphase, collaborative research project conducted by NASA and Boeing Research...The Low Speed Wind Tunnel is the only facility in the nation that can simulate aircraft takeoff, approach and landing.NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, center, answers questions along with David Melcher, CEO of the Aerospace Industry Association (AIA), left, and...Ten top-level officials from United Airlines visited NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia on February 24 to learn more...NASA engineers Alphonso Stewart, left; Ken Iliff, center; and Dale Reed, right; were part of the center's lifting body aircraft...NASA is with you when you fly. Key aerodynamic advances made by NASA researchers led to the upturned tips of...Grumman manufactured two airframes. They flew a total of 437 flights between 1984-1992. On Dec. 13, 1985, the X-29 became...The future of flight is coming. Investing in greener, quieter and safer aviation.President Obama’s FY 2017 budget proposal gives $790 million to our aeronautics research and future of flight.We are transforming aviation by making it greener, quieter and more efficient.North American Aviation manufactured 3 airframes. They flew a total of 199 flights between 1959-1968. This joint program by NASA,...Northrop manufactured two airframes. They flew a total of 90 flights between 1948-1953. In a joint program with the Air...Christine Pastor, an AeroMechanical Test Engineer with Sierra Lobo, Inc, works in Glenn's 8x6 Supersonic Wind Tunnel.Bell Aircraft built three of the original X-1s, plus an X-1A and X-1B, an X-1D. There was also an X-1E...NASA's X-43A research vehicle has screamed into the record books, demonstrating an air-breathing engine can fly at nearly 10 times...NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center’s F-15D Eagle #897, flown by pilot Troy Asher with videographer Lori Losey in the back...A test pilot operates a virtual large unmanned aircraft system, or UAS, with simulated air traffic at a NASA research...NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center engineers are working on an increasingly complex aircraft called the Preliminary Research Aerodynamic Design to...In the wake of recent success with air-to-air schlieren photography using the speckled desert floor as a background, researchers at...Using a massive update to a 150-year-old German photography technique, NASA and the United States Air Force recently released what's...On August 19, 2015, thousands of people celebrated National Aviation Day by "spreading their wings" and learning about how NASA...In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt designated August 19 as National Aviation Day in honor of Orville Wright’s birthday, directing...The D-558-I "Skystreaks" were among the early transonic research airplanes like the X-1, X-4, X-5, and XF-92A.In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt designated August 19 as National Aviation Day in honor of Orville Wright’s birthday, directing...In 1943, Orville Wright (third from left in straw hat) visited the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory in Cleveland, now known...See a winglet and you're seeing NASA-developed technology at work saving fuel and reducing emissions.
