Imagine a battery-powered plane that has 10 engines and can take off like a helicopter and fly efficiently like an aircraft. That is a concept being developed by NASA researchers called Grea... Read more
The arrival of a unique experimental demonstrator at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center on February 26 may herald a future in which many aircraft are powered by electric motors. The Leadi... Read more
“This team of graduate and undergraduate students have created a device that will truly benefit those with disabilities” A student team at the University of Virginia’s School of Engine... Read more
Humans may step on the interstellar gas pedal some day and “Boom!” goes the engine. On Tuesday, April 2, at NASA’s Langley Research Center, theoretical physicist Friedwardt... Read more
How would you like to replace your water heater with a nuclear reactor? That’s what Joseph Zawodny, a senior scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center, hopes to help bring about. It would... Read more
Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator or HIAD, for short. NASA technicians and engineers are putting the finishing touches on a unique experiment designed to demonstrate that an infl... Read more
Showing a virtual overlay of the runway and airport NASA has developed a pair of augmented reality glasses designed especially for commercial airline pilots to see during the worst visual co... Read more
Enhanced and synthetic vision technologies (and even a combination of the two) promise to make flying on small- and medium-size aircraft safer. When large airliners approach an airpor... Read more