A climactic curtain drop reveals the newly painted red, white, and blue X-59 aircraft during its…
Category: Aeronautics
NASA’s DC-8 to Fly Low-Altitude Over Central Valley, CA
What: NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center’s DC-8 aircraft will fly over Central Valley and surroundings areas as…
NASA Autonomous Flight Software Successfully Used in Air Taxi Stand-Ins
In late October, two research helicopters from the manufacturer Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, made a…
NASA Awards Contract for Aviation, Railroad Safety Reporting Systems
NASA has awarded a contract to Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. of McLean, Virginia, for the maintenance…
NASA Releases STEM Toolkit for Advanced Air Mobility
NASA Aeronautics has released a new STEM toolkit focusing on Advanced Air Mobility for educators and…
NASA Flies Drones Autonomously for Air Taxi Research
Researchers at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia recently flew multiple drones beyond visual line…
NASA Uses Two Worlds to Test Future Mars Helicopter Designs
This video combines two perspectives of the 59th flight of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. Video on…
NASA, Joby Pave the Way for Air Taxis in Busy Airports
Researchers are one step closer to integrating air taxis and other electric vertical takeoff and landing…
120th Anniversary of the First Powered, Controlled Flight
In this image from Dec. 17, 1903, Orville Wright makes the first powered, controlled flight on…
Armstrong Flight Research Center: A Year in Review
It was an abundant year of innovation, exploration, and inspiration for NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center…