NASA’s Home for Experimental Flight Advances Aeronautics Mission
Nestled in the Mojave Desert, NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, pushes the boundaries of flight to advance…
Tag: Aeronautics
NASA Investigates How People Respond to Air Taxi Noise
New kinds of aircraft taking to the skies could mean unfamiliar sounds overhead — and where you’re hearing them might…
Award-Winning NASA Camera Revolutionizes How We See the Invisible
Imagine trying to photograph wind. That’s similar to what NASA engineers dealt with during a recent effort to study how…
NASA Advances High-Altitude Traffic Management – NASA
High-altitude flight is getting increasing attention from sectors ranging from telecommunications to emergency response. To make that airspace more accessible, NASA is…
NASA Completes First Flight of Laminar Flow Scaled Wing Design
NASA completed the first flight test of a scale-model wing designed to improve laminar flow, reducing drag and lowering fuel costs for future commercial aircraft. The flight took place Jan.…
NASA Aims to Advance Hypersonic Flight Testing with New Awards
While NASA is working with U.S. aviation to explore commercial supersonic technologies, the agency is also looking forward to an…
NASA Launches Its Most Powerful, Efficient Supercomputer
NASA is announcing the availability of its newest supercomputer, Athena, an advanced system designed to support a new generation of…
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.…
NASA Tests Technology Offering Potential Fuel Savings for Commercial Aviation
NASA researchers have successfully completed a high-speed taxi test of a scale model of a design that could make future…
NASA Chase Aircraft Ensures X-59’s Safety in Flight – NASA
As NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft continues a series of flight tests over the California high desert in 2026, its pilot will…