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Al Bowers explains the Prandtl experimental aircraft and how its wing twist could redefine the efficiency of aircraft.
A Xombie technology demonstrator from Masten Space Systems, Mojave, Calif., ascends from its pad at Mojave Air and...
As the sun sets across the Alabama country side, engineers at Marshall's Test Stand 116 perform an endurance test on...
Experimental investigation of boundary layer control to helicopter rotor blades to increase forward speed...
As the sun sets across the Alabama country side, engineers at Marshall's Test Stand 116 perform an endurance test on...
In 1947, the American rocket-powered X-1 experimental aircraft broke the sound barrier. X-1 team members from the...
jsc2020e040952 (8/3/2020) --- A prefligt interior view of Freezer / Refrigerator / Incubator Device for Galley and...
This is the McDornell Douglas CD-XA Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) concept. The Delta Clipper-Experimental (DC-X) was...
Experimental study on material flammability and flame spreading in partial gravity aboard the DC-9 aircraft, based...
jsc2020e040949 (2/21/2020) --- A preflight view of Freezer / Refrigerator / Incubator Device for Galley and...
N-231 High Reynolds Number Channel Facility (An example of a Versatile Wind Tunnel) Tunnel 1 I is a blowdown...
Photographic documentation showing co-operative students performing their various tasks around Johnson Space Center....
The augmentor wing concept was introduced during the early 1960s to enhance the performance of vertical and short...
S79-28602 (2 March 1979) --- Astronaut candidate Guion S. Bluford and Aviation Safety Officer Charles F. Hayes got a...
The X-59, NASA’s quiet supersonic technology experimental aircraft, is suspended in the air at Lockheed Martin’s...
The X-59, NASA’s quiet supersonic technology experimental aircraft, arrives back at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk...
Students examine the Global Hawk Fairing Load Test at the Experimental Fabrication Shop at NASA’s Armstrong Research...
ISS017-E-017302 (27 Sept. 2008) --- Astronaut Greg Chamitoff, Expedition 17 flight engineer, works with the...
BELL XV-3 (AF54-148) Convertiplane (experimental tilt rotor) IN FLIGHT Note: Used in publication in Flight Research...
Students examine small parts made at the Experimental Fabrication Shop at NASA’s Armstrong Research Flight Center in...
ISS008-E-19132 (24 March 2004) --- The Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites...
The X-59, NASA's quiet supersonic technology experimental aircraft, sits in Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works facility...
Ames Research Center Bldg N-257 CVSSRF (Crew Vehicle System Research Facility) simulator: Experimenter/Operator...
Wallops Island camera equipment installed on board the Ames CV-990 (NASA 711) Galileo Airborne platform for the 1971...