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The Hybrid Wing Body H-Series future aircraft design concept comes from the research team led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Aircraft that might fly in the years ahead.

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X-48 Blended Wing Body

Scale model of a blended wing aircraft.

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Distinguished by its large nose payload bay, NASA's Ikhana unmanned aircraft does an engine run prior to takeoff from General Atomics' Grey Butte airfield.
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Photos of aircraft flying at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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    Pilots usually steer aircraft away from atmospheric turbulence. But one kind of disturbed air has benefitted smaller airplanes. What technology did NASA contribute to this beneficial outcome?

    Fuselage-area air de-layering
    Wing-flap controlled-air vortices
    Under-wing rough-air coils
    Air-smoothing skin microbumplets
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