Shortly after dawn on March 27, 2001, NASA pilot Bill Rieke took off from an airfield just outside of Phoenix in NASA’s blue-and-white Learjet 25 and flew low over a series of microphones for the first flight test of a groundbreaking NASA technology. On one of the plane’s engines was an experimental jagged-edged nozzle that […]
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Glenn Research Center, Aeronautics, Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, Green Aviation Tech, NASA History
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March 11, 2025
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