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NASA Furthers Aeronautical Innovation Using Model-Based Systems

August 5, 2024

John Gould

As NASA continues cutting-edge aeronautics research, the agency also is taking steps to make sure the benefits from these diverse technologies are greater than the sum of their parts. To tackle that challenge, NASA is using Model-Based Systems Analysis and Engineering (MBSAE). This type of engineering digitally simulates how multiple technologies could best work together…
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Boneyard Airplane Sees New Life as a NASA X-66 Simulator

July 23, 2024

Dede Dinius

NASA’s X-66 aircraft, the centerpiece of its Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project, is taking the term “sustainable” to heart by reusing an old MD-90 cockpit as a base for its new X-66 simulator. When airplanes are retired, they often wind up in “boneyards” — storage fields where they spend years being picked over for parts by…
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NASA Prepares for Air Taxi Passenger Comfort Studies

June 27, 2024

Dede Dinius

A new custom virtual reality flight simulator built by NASA researchers will allow them to explore how passengers experience air taxi rides and collect data that will help designers create new aircraft with passenger comfort in mind. Wayne Ringelberg, a test pilot at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, recently completed a series…
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Globetrotting NASA Research Model Increases Accuracy

June 17, 2024

Jim Banke

NASA and its international partners are using the same generically shaped wing design to create physical and digital research models to better understand how air moves around an aircraft during takeoff and landing. Various organizations are doing computer modeling with computational tools and conducting wind tunnel tests using the same High Lift Common Research Model…
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Aviary: A New NASA Software Platform for Aircraft Modelling

May 17, 2024

John Gould

NASA has created a new digital modelling tool for aeronautical engineers to innovate new aircraft designs, building on decades of experience using highly advanced computer code for aviation. Using this tool, researchers can create simulations of conceptual aircraft featuring never-flown technology and receive detailed data about how it would work. Named “Aviary” for enclosures where…
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NASA Noise Prediction Tool Supports Users in Air Taxi Industry

April 4, 2024

Dede Dinius

Several air taxi companies are using a NASA-developed computer software tool to predict aircraft noise and aerodynamic performance. This tool allows manufacturers working in fields related to NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility mission to see early in the aircraft development process how design elements like propellors or wings would perform. This saves the industry time and…
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NASA Armstrong Updates 1960s Concept to Study Giant Planets

March 13, 2024

Dede Dinius

NASA researchers are looking at the possibility of using a wingless, unpowered aircraft design from the 1960s to gather atmospheric data on other planets – doing the same work as small satellites but potentially better and more economically. John Bodylski, a principal investigator at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, hypothesized a lifting…
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Math, Mentorship, Motherhood: Behind the Scenes with NASA Engineers

February 22, 2024

Arezu Sarvestani

Editor’s note: This article was originally published on February 22, 2024. Engineering is a huge field with endless applications. From aerospace to ergonomics, engineers play an important role in designing, building, and testing technologies all around us. We asked three engineers at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley to share their experiences, from…
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NASA Selects University Teams to Explore Innovative Aeronautical Research

February 20, 2024

Jim Banke

NASA has selected another five university teams to participate in real-world aviation research challenges that could help transform flight in the skies above our communities.
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NASA Selects Awardees for New Aviation Maintenance Challenge

November 16, 2023

Lillian Gipson

NASA has selected three university-led teams for the first round of a new technical challenge pursuing innovative aviation maintenance practices. These university teams will receive funding from NASA for a two-year research term exploring aviation maintenance challenges related to NASA’s strategic vision for aeronautics. The awardees will research new maintenance techniques and procedures, as well…
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Category: Flight Innovation

NASA Furthers Aeronautical Innovation Using Model-Based Systems

Boneyard Airplane Sees New Life as a NASA X-66 Simulator

NASA Prepares for Air Taxi Passenger Comfort Studies

Globetrotting NASA Research Model Increases Accuracy

Aviary: A New NASA Software Platform for Aircraft Modelling

NASA Noise Prediction Tool Supports Users in Air Taxi Industry

NASA Armstrong Updates 1960s Concept to Study Giant Planets

Math, Mentorship, Motherhood: Behind the Scenes with NASA Engineers

NASA Selects University Teams to Explore Innovative Aeronautical Research

NASA Selects Awardees for New Aviation Maintenance Challenge

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