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  • NASA's Ikhana, a modified General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-9 Predator B, conducts engine run-up before a pre-dawn takeoff on the first test flight of the new ADS-B aircraft tracking technology on an unmanned aircraft system.

    NASA Flight Tests New ADS-B Device on Ikhana UAS

    03.23.12 - NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center conducts first checkout flight of ADS-B Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast device on medium-class UAS.

  • Sector 33 App Icon.

    Sector 33 Puts You in the Control Tower

    03.21.12 - Players flock to a new NASA app that requires the brain to be in full throttle to make sure passenger airplanes land safely at a California airport.

  • Artist's rendering of X-56A MUTT aircraft.

    Introducing the X-56A MUTT: Who Let the Dog Out?

    03.06.12 - Sub-scale Multi-Use Technology Testbed to research means of gust load alleviation and active flutter suppression on flexible wings.

  • Polar opposites attract in the puzzling case of ice crystal engine icing, where the frozen crystals can be ingested into the core of a jet engine.

    Preps Continue for Launching Engine Icing Research

    02.17.12 - NASA scientists are getting closer to launching a research campaign to solve the mystery of ice crystal engine icing.

  • NASA aeronautics researchers work on a simulation to test computer tools that can improve air traffic flow and reduce delays.

    NASA's 2011 Aeronautics Work Makes Mark on Aviation

    02.02.12 - A look at NASA Aeronautics' report card for 2011 reveals high marks for innovative ideas and tools that improve our vital air transportation system.

  • (l to r) Dr. Jaiwon Shin, associate administrator for NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, presents the EDA 3D-PAM technology to Victoria Cox, assistant administrator for NextGen at the FAA, and David Grizzle, chief operating officer for the FAA's Air Traffic Organization.

    NASA/FAA Partnership "Greens" Arriving Aircraft

    02.01.12 - NASA aeronautics officially transferred to the FAA a new air traffic management tool that makes aircraft descents more environmentally friendly.

  • Three artist concept vehicles flying in the sky in formation.

    New Ideas Sharpen Focus for Greener Aircraft

    01.27.12 - New aircraft design ideas confirm NASA's green goals are challenging, but ultimately do-able.

  • A FACET image of air traffic and researchers at work

    8 Questions about NextGen, Part 1

    01.18.12 - Leighton Quon answers eight questions about what NASA is doing to help improve air transportation for all of us in the future.

  • NASA Dryden’s F-15B research testbed aircraft flew the CCIE experimental jet engine inlet to speeds up to Mach 1.74, or about 1.7 times the speed of sound.

    New Inlet Design Could Improve Engine Efficiency

    12.27.11 - Channeled center body inlet could improve airflow and fuel efficiency of jet engines at a wide variety of speeds.

  • Richard T. Whitcomb National Aviation Hall of Fame poster

    Aerodynamicist Wins National Recognition

    12.19.11 - Richard T. Whitcomb, whose legendary NASA research contributions helped make supersonic flight a reality, will join the National Aviation Hall of Fame.

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