Aeronautics

Armstrong Flight Research Center
Aeronautics
People of NASA
T-34C
Riding in the back seat of a car can be boring. Riding in the back of a NASA aircraft is exhilarating, especially for photographers capturing NASA’s story. Jim Ross, photo lead at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, was awarded first place for an image he took while flying upside down in a […]
Posted April 17, 2024
Aeronautics
Airborne Science
Armstrong Flight Research Center
DC-8
Earth Science
Langley Research Center
Science in the Air
After 37 years of successful airborne science missions, NASA’s DC-8 aircraft completed its final mission and returned to the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center Building 703 in Palmdale, California, on April 1.
Posted April 10, 2024
Langley Research Center
Aeronautics
Drones & You
A six-person team of researchers from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, will travel to Fort Drum, N.Y., to study changes in the Sun’s radiation as it reaches Earth before, during, and after the total solar eclipse April 8. Weather sensors similar to what is used on daily weather balloons by the National Weather […]
Posted April 5, 2024
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Advanced Air Mobility
Advanced Air Vehicles Program
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Ames Research Center
Drones & You
Flight Innovation
Glenn Research Center
Langley Research Center
Revolutionary Vertical Lift Technology
Several air taxi companies are using a NASA-developed computer software tool to predict aircraft noise and aerodynamic performance. This tool allows manufacturers working in fields related to NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility mission to see early in the aircraft development process how design elements like propellors or wings would perform.
Posted April 4, 2024
Langley Research Center
Aeronautics
Eight teams participating in the 2024 Gateways to Blue Skies: Advancing Aviation for Natural Disasters Competition have been selected to present their design concepts to a panel of industry experts at the 2024 Blue Skies Forum, May 30 and 31, 2024 at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.   Sponsored by NASA’s Aeronautics Researc
Posted March 26, 2024
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Center Innovation Fund
Flight Innovation
Space Technology Mission Directorate
NASA researchers are looking at the possibility of using a wingless, unpowered aircraft design from the 1960s to gather atmospheric data on other planets – doing the same work as small satellites but potentially better and more economically.
Posted March 13, 2024
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Green Aviation Tech
Integrated Aviation Systems Program
Sustainable Flight Demonstrator
As NASA and Boeing enter the early stages of producing the X-66, the first X-plane specifically focused on helping the United States achieve net-zero aviation emissions by 2050, the team is already picturing what the aircraft will look like soaring above the clouds.  A new rendering of the X-66 from Boeing demonstrates the aircraft’s signature […]
Posted March 7, 2024
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Advanced Air Vehicles Program
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Aeronautics Technology
Commercial Supersonic Technology
Low Boom Flight Demonstrator
Quesst (X-59)
Quesst: The Flights
Supersonic Flight
NASA’s X-59 experimental aircraft is unique – it’s designed to fly faster than the speed of sound, but without causing a loud sonic boom. To confirm the X-59’s ability to fly supersonic while only producing quiet sonic “thumps,” NASA needs to be able to record these sounds from the ground. The agency recently completed tests […]
Posted February 22, 2024
Glenn Research Center
Aeronautics
Armstrong Flight Research Center
NASA History
Supersonic flight became a reality in October 1947, when the Bell X-1 rocket plane broke the sound barrier.
Posted February 22, 2024
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Flight Innovation
Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program
University Innovation
University Leadership Initiative
University Student Research Challenge
NASA has selected another five university teams to participate in real-world aviation research challenges that could help transform flight in the skies above our communities.
Posted February 21, 2024
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