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NASA researchers recently completed a full-scale crash test of an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL)...

NASA Concludes AEROcAST Wind Study

A NASA wind study aimed at enhancing air taxi safety on takeoff and landing is complete at NASA’s Armstrong Flight...

AAM Rotor Icing Evaluation Studies (AIRES) I Test Documentation Photos at the Icing Research Tunnel (IRT)

Curtis Flack (left) and Paul von Hardenberg (right) inspect the ice formation on the spinner of an Advanced Air...

HDV BVOLOS first flight

NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Project has established a line of research within its portfolio referred to as...

Ensuring Safety for Advanced Air Mobility

NASA's Advanced Air Mobility mission is helping to ensure this new class of aircraft that industry is developing is...

Investigating Advanced Air Mobility Ride Quality

Electrical vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOLs), like the one shown in this concept art, could be a...

Advanced Air Mobility Makes Travel More Accessible

Advanced Air Mobility will connect both urban dwellers and rural residents by adding a new way to travel by air. As...

Planning a Future Airspace with Advanced Air Mobility

For NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility mission's vision to be successful, partners in industry and government must develop...

2023 Administrator's Agency Honor Awards

On March 28, 2024 NASA held its 2023 Administrator’s Agency Honor Awards at the Glenn Research Center in Cleveland,...

NASA Armstrong Supports Wind Study

A NASA flight campaign aims to enable drones to land safely on rooftop hubs called vertiports for future delivery of...

NASA Advances Air Taxi Comfort Studies

Researchers at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center are using a custom built virtually reality simulator to test...

NASA Drop Test Supports Safer Air Taxi Designs

Researchers at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, dropped a full-scale aircraft body, modeled...

NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center 2022 Highlights

NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, explores the unknown in air and space, innovates for...

NASA and Joby Research Near NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center

One of multiple NASA distributed sensing ground nodes is set up in the foreground while an experimental air taxi...

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An idea for a future air taxi hovers over a municipal vertiport in this NASA illustration. Experts from NASA’s...

NASA and Joby Research Near NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center

One of multiple NASA distributed sensing ground nodes is set up in the foreground while an experimental air taxi...

NASA and Joby Research Near NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center

NASA aeronautical meteorologist Luke Bard adjusts one of several wind lidar (light detection and ranging) sensors...

NASA and Joby Research Near NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center

One of several NASA distributed sensing ground nodes is set up in the foreground while an experimental air taxi...

NASA and Joby Complete Air Taxi Testing

Members from NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign team and Revolutionary Vertical Lift Technology team...

Air Taxi Passenger Comfort Simulator at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center with Pilot

NASA test pilot Wayne Ringelberg sits in the air taxi virtual reality flight simulator during a test at NASA’s...

Airborne Instrumentation for Real-world Video of Urban Environments (AIRVUE) Sensor Pod Build at NASA Armstrong 

NASA researchers James Cowart and Elizabeth Nail add sensors, wiring and cameras, to the NASA Airborne...

NASA Uses Wind Tunnel to Test Advanced Air Mobility Aircraft Wing

In May and June, NASA researchers tested a 7-foot wing model with multiple propellers in the 14-by-22-Foot Subsonic...

Revolutionary Vertical Lift Technology Project (RVLT) Simulator

Airborne Instrumentation for Real-world Video of Urban Environments (AIRVUE) Sensor Pod on NASA’s Kennedy Space Center’s Helicopter

The NASA Airborne Instrumentation for Real-world Video of Urban Environments (AIRVUE) sensor pod is attached to the...