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X-48 Blended Wing Body

Scale model of a blended wing aircraft.

Follow the X-48 through testing and flight.

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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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All aeronautics web chats and transcripts to date.

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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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Graphic showing Idea 1 and 2 of the Advanced High Lift Leading Edge. Idea 2 has a larger slope.

NASA Seeks It All: High Lift, Low Drag

NASA and its industry partners have been working to prove you can have your aerodynamic cake and eat it, too.

The Sector 33 App at the USA Science and Engineering Festival in 2012.

Sector 33 Game App Goes Android

Up to the challenge of playing a game where you're in control of airplanes in a piece of the nation's skies? Yup, there's an app for that.

Dryden pilot Troy Asher readies himself in the cockpit of a Learjet that once at altitude will use the new Fused Reality flight simulator for an aerial refueling drill.

Fused Reality: Blending Reality and Simulation

STI develops new flight simulation system that combines real-world and computer-generated visualization under a SBIR Phase II agreement with NASA.

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NASA-developed technology is onboard nearly every commercial aircraft flying today or in use at every major airport.

NASA Is With You When You Fly

When you board a plane this holiday season, or anytime, realize that NASA works every day to make flying more efficient and safe.

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NASA Dryden's F-18 #853 flies a Research Flight Control System checkout flight recently for NASA's Integrated Resilient Aircraft Controls (IRAC) project.

Intelligent Control: Reducing Drag, Saving Fuel

Minimal modifications to existing flight control laws could improve aerodynamics, optimizing fuel consumption, reducing costs and pollution.

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    NASA technology to monitor astronaut health is being adapted by industry to help military and test pilots avoid a dangerous health hazard. What is the device’s name and the condition it will prevent?

    BONE and decalcification
    REDB and anemia
    PUMA and hypoxia
    SONO and dizziness
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