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The X-59 research aircraft is the centerpiece of NASA's Quesst mission. It is designed to fly supersonic without...
A look at the X-59’s engine nozzle, where the thrust -the force that moves the aircraft- will exit. Once complete,...
This look-down view of the X-36 Tailless Fighter Agility Research Aircraft on the ramp at NASA’s Dryden Flight...
The unusual design of the Proteus high-altitude aircraft, incorporating a gull-wing shape for its main wing and a...
The unusual design of the Proteus high-altitude aircraft, incorporating a gull-wing shape for its main wing and a...
In May and June, NASA researchers tested a 7-foot wing model with multiple propellers in the 14-by-22-Foot Subsonic...
NASA’s Crossflow Attenuated Natural Laminar Flow (CATNLF) scale-model wing flies for the first time on a NASA F-15...
NASA’s Crossflow Attenuated Natural Laminar Flow (CATNLF) scale-model wing flies for the first time on a NASA F-15...
Ames engineers Allen Faye, Merrill Mead and John 'Jack' Boyd discuss aircraft design and handling
The aircraft in this 1953 photo of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) hangar at South Base of...
Program manager Carl Ciepluch poses with a model of the Quiet Clean Short Haul Experimental Engine (QCSEE) conceived...
The X-57 Maxwell, NASA’s first all-electric experimental aircraft, or X-plane – and the agency’s first crewed...
NASA’s X-59 towbar sits in front of a hangar at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California....
Bearing NASA tail number 870, NASA's Ikhana unmanned aircraft is a civil version of the Predator B designed for...
A Vought F-8A Crusader was selected by NASA as the testbed aircraft (designated TF-8A) to install an experimental...
Justin Hall, left, chief pilot of small unmanned aircraft systems, carries the atmospheric probe at NASA’s Armstrong...
Justin Link, left, unmanned aircraft systems pilot, and Justin Hall, chief pilot for small unmanned aircraft...
Preliminary Research Aerodynamic Design to Lower Drag, or Prandtl-D1, will be displayed in an upcoming Innovations...
Electrical vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOLs), like the one shown in this concept art, could be a...
The Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar, UAVSAR, is prepared for installation onto NASA’s C-20A...
An atmospheric probe model attached upside down to a host quad rotor remotely piloted aircraft lifts off on Oct. 22,...
An atmospheric probe model is attached upside down to a quad rotor remotely piloted aircraft on Oct. 22, 2024. The...
The Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar, UAVSAR, is prepared for installation onto NASA’s C-20A...
The Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar, UAVSAR, is prepared for installation onto NASA’s C-20A...