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NASA Flips Efficient Wing Concept for Testing

Upside down can be right side up. That’s what NASA researchers determined for tests of an efficient wing concept that could be part of the agency’s answer to making future aircraft sustainable.

Posted December 5, 2024

Aeronautics

Electrified Aircraft Propulsion

Electrified Powertrain Flight Demo

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MUREP

NASA Engineer Carries Indigenous Roots into New Aviation Era

Growing up outside of Philadelphia, Abigail Reigner spent most of her childhood miles away from where her family called home, and where there was little trace of her Native American tribe and culture. Belonging to the Comanche Nation that resides in Lawton, Oklahoma, Reigner’s parents made every effort to keep her connected to her Indigenous […]

Posted November 19, 2024

Advanced Air Transport Technology

Advanced Air Vehicles Program

Aeronautics

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Langley Research Center

Sustainable Flight Demonstrator

Sustainable Flight National Partnership

NASA Funds New Studies Looking at Future of Sustainable Aircraft

Picture yourself at an airport a few decades from now. What does your airliner look like? It’s more efficient, with lower emissions than today’s aircraft – what kinds of designs or technology make that possible? NASA is working to answer those questions by commissioning five new design studies looking to push the boundaries of possibility […]

Posted November 12, 2024

Aeronautics

Airspace Operations and Safety Program

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Math, Mentorship, Motherhood: Behind the Scenes with NASA Engineers

Editor’s note: This article was originally published on February 22, 2024. Engineering is a huge field with endless applications. From aerospace to ergonomics, engineers play an important role in designing, building, and testing technologies all around us.

Posted November 8, 2024

Aeronautics

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Langley Research Center

Low Boom Flight Demonstrator

Quesst (X-59)

Quesst: The Vehicle

Supersonic Flight

X-59 Fires Up its Engine for First Time on its Way to Takeoff

Lee esta historia en español aquí. NASA’s Quesst mission marked a major milestone with the start of tests on the engine that will power the quiet supersonic X-59 experimental aircraft. These engine-run tests, which began Oct. 30, allow the X-59 team to verify the aircraft’s systems are working together while powered by its own engine. […]

Posted November 6, 2024

Aeronautics

Advanced Air Mobility

Air Traffic Management - Exploration

Air Traffic Solutions

Airspace Operations and Safety Program

Drones & You

NASA and Partners Scaling to New Heights

NASA, in partnership with AeroVironment and Aerostar, recently demonstrated a first-of-its-kind air traffic management concept that could pave the way for aircraft to safely operate at higher altitudes.

Posted October 18, 2024

Aeronautics

Air Traffic Solutions

NASA Ames Welcomes Latvian President, Talks Aeronautics Research

President of Latvia Edgars Rinkēvičs observes simulated visuals of an airport and its air traffic, consisting of commercial aircraft and electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, at NASA’s FutureFlight Central on Sept.

Posted September 24, 2024

Aeronautics

Advanced Air Vehicles Program

Green Aviation Tech

Hybrid Thermally Efficient Core

NASA, GE Aerospace Advancing Hybrid-Electric Airliners with HyTEC

Hybrid-electric cars have been a staple of the road for many years now. Soon that same idea of a part-electric-, part-gas-powered engine may find its way into the skies propelling a future jet airliner. NASA is working in tandem with industry partner GE Aerospace on designing and building just such an engine, one that burns […]

Posted September 17, 2024