Advanced Air Vehicles Program

Electrified Aircraft Propulsion

Hybrid Thermally Efficient Core

NASA, GE Aerospace Hybrid Engine System Marks Successful Test

To an untrained eye, the aircraft engine sitting outside of a Cincinnati facility in December might have looked like standard hardware.

Posted January 26, 2026

Aeronautics Technology

Flight Demos Capabilities

Flight Innovation

Integrated Aviation Systems Program

NASA Tests Technology Offering Potential Fuel Savings for Commercial Aviation

NASA researchers successfully completed a high-speed taxi test of a scale model of a design that could make future aircraft more efficient by improving how air flows across a wing’s surface, saving fuel and money. On Jan. 12, the Crossflow Attenuated Natural Laminar Flow (CATNLF) test article reached speeds of approximately 144 mph, marking its […]

Posted January 21, 2026

Aeronautics

Advanced Air Transport Technology

Ultra-Efficient Aviation

NASA, Boeing Test How to Improve Performance of Longer, Narrower Aircraft Wings

The airliner you board in the future could look a lot different from today’s, with longer, thinner wings that provide a smoother ride while saving fuel. Those wings would be a revolutionary design for commercial aircraft, but like any breakthrough technology, they come with their own development challenges – which experts from NASA and Boeing […]

Posted December 18, 2025

General

Advanced Air Transport Technology

Aerosciences Evaluation Test Capabilities

NASA Centers & Facilities

Transformational Tools Technologies

Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program

NASA Software Raises Bar for Aircraft Icing Research

When flying in certain weather conditions, tiny freezing water droplets floating in the air can pose a risk to aircraft. If not taken into consideration, these water droplets can accumulate on an aircraft as ice and pose a safety risk. But NASA software tools such as Glenn Icing Computational Environment (GlennICE) are working to keep […]

Posted December 4, 2025

Aeronautics

Ames Research Center

Low Boom Flight Demonstrator

Quesst (X-59)

Supersonic Flight

NASA’s X-59 Moves Toward First Flight at Speed of Safety

As NASA’s one-of-a-kind X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft approaches first flight, its team is mapping every step from taxi and takeoff to cruising and landing – and their decision-making is guided by safety. First flight will be a lower-altitude loop at about 240 mph to check system integration, kicking off a phase of flight testing […]

Posted September 12, 2025

Advanced Air Mobility

Aeronautics

Ames Research Center

Drones & You

Revolutionary Vertical Lift Technology

NASA Air Taxi Passenger Comfort Studies Move Forward

NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility vision involves the skies above the U.S. filled with new types of aircraft, including air taxis. But making that vision a reality involves ensuring that people will actually want to ride these aircraft – which is why NASA has been working to evaluate comfort, to see what passengers will and won’t […]

Posted June 20, 2025

Aeronautics

Hypersonic Technology

NASA Tech to Measure Heat, Strain in Hypersonic Flight

A NASA system designed to measure temperature and strain on high-speed vehicles is set to make its first flights at hypersonic speeds – greater than Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound – when mounted to two research rockets launching this summer. Technicians in the Environmental Laboratory at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center […]

Posted June 18, 2025

Aeronautics

Ames Research Center

Commercial Supersonic Technology

Integrated Aviation Systems Program

Low Boom Flight Demonstrator

Quesst (X-59)

Quesst: The Vehicle

Supersonic Flight

NASA X-59’s Latest Testing Milestone: Simulating Flight from the Ground

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft successfully completed a critical series of tests in which the airplane was put through its paces for cruising high above the California desert – all without ever leaving the ground. “The idea behind these tests is to command the airplane’s subsystems and flight computer to function as if it […]

Posted May 16, 2025

Aeronautics