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  • NASA Books Reveal Wisdom Gained from Failure

    03.29.13 - The latest in NASA Aeronautics' Book Series tells the stories of lessons learned from accidents involving remotely piloted or autonomous aircraft.

  • Some of the more than 100 speakers that make the boom room 'boom' for test subjects

    Listening for the Boom and Rattle of Supersonic Flight

    03.06.13 - NASA engineers test people's reactions to simulated sonic booms to help develop technologies that might allow supersonic passenger jets to fly over land.

  • A semi-span jet model is to be tested in NASA Langley's 14-by-22 Foot Subsonic Wind Tunnel.

    NASA Researchers Work to Turn Blue Skies Green

    02.27.13 - A big part of NASA's work to reduce the environmental impact of aircraft has moved into phase two.

  • A view from a NASA chase plane during a test flight of the blended wing body X-48B remote-piloted vehicle in April 2008. Image credit: NASA Dryden/Lori Losey

    Aeronautics Making Air Travel Safer, Greener, Efficient

    02.21.13 - Our work will help find solutions for increasing the capacity, efficiency and flexibility of our national airspace.

  • Graphic showing Idea 1 and 2 of the Advanced High Lift Leading Edge. Idea 2 has a larger slope.

    NASA Seeks It All: High Lift, Low Drag

    02.06.13 - NASA and its industry partners have been working to prove you can have your aerodynamic cake and eat it, too.

  • The Sector 33 App at the USA Science and Engineering Festival in 2012.

    Sector 33 Game App Goes Android

    02.05.13 - Up to the challenge of playing a game where you're in control of airplanes in a piece of the nation's skies? Yup, there's an app for that.

  • Dryden pilot Troy Asher readies himself in the cockpit of a Learjet that once at altitude will use the new Fused Reality flight simulator for an aerial refueling drill.

    Fused Reality: Blending Reality and Simulation

    12.27.12 - STI develops new flight simulation system that combines real-world and computer-generated visualization under a SBIR Phase II agreement with NASA.

  • NASA-developed technology is onboard nearly every commercial aircraft flying today or in use at every major airport.

    NASA Is With You When You Fly

    12.21.12 - When you board a plane this holiday season, or anytime, realize that NASA works every day to make flying more efficient and safe.

  • NASA Dryden's F-18 #853 flies a Research Flight Control System checkout flight recently for NASA's Integrated Resilient Aircraft Controls (IRAC) project.

    Intelligent Control: Reducing Drag, Saving Fuel

    12.13.12 - Minimal modifications to existing flight control laws could improve aerodynamics, optimizing fuel consumption, reducing costs and pollution.

  • NASA Dryden's venerable McDonnell Douglas F-15B Eagle aeronautical research test bed was captured by photographer Jim Ross as it flew over Lake Isabella in Southern California's Kern County.

    Dryden's F-15B Ready to Fly SBLT-II Flight Tests

    12.10.12 - Supersonic Boundary Layer Transition flights to test Aerion Corp. airfoil section to investigate the extent and robustness of natural laminar flow.

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