NASA Aeronautics News

NASA Partners With the LEGO Group for Design and Build Contest
NASA and the LEGO Group are partnering to inspire the next generation of aerospace engineers by offering a new design competition. The competition will spur students of all ages to use the toy bricks …
NASA Administrator Tours Advanced Aviation Technology At Langley, Meets Media Friday
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will see technologies NASA is developing to make flying and the national air transportation system safer, cleaner and more efficient during a trip to NASA's Lang …
NASA Partners With Ohio Non-Profit on Unmanned Air Challenge
NASA has selected Development Projects Inc. of Dayton, Ohio, to manage a new Centennial Challenge prize competition involving unmanned aircraft systems in 2014.
X-48 Project Completes Flight Research for Cleaner, Quieter Aircraft
NASA's remotely piloted X-48C hybrid-wing-body subscale aircraft, which demonstrates technology concepts for cleaner and quieter commercial air travel, completed an eight-month flight research ca …
NASA Begins Flight Research Campaign Using Alternate Jet Fuel
NASA researchers have begun a series of flights using the agency's DC-8 flying laboratory to study the effects of alternate biofuel on engine performance, emissions and aircraft-generated contrai …
NASA's Green Aviation Research Throttles Up Into Second Gear
NASA has selected eight large-scale integrated technology demonstrations to advance aircraft concepts and technologies that will reduce the impact of aviation on the environment over the next 30 years …
NASA Green Aviation Project to Move Into Next Phase of Research
NASA's Environmentally Responsible Aviation (ERA) Project is moving forward with its research efforts to "green" the skies.
New NASA-Funded Forecast System Helps Transoceanic Flights Avoid Storms
A new NASA-funded prototype system developed by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) of Boulder, Colo., now is providing weather forecasts that can help flights avoid major storms as th …
Three NASA Airborne Earth Science Missions Focus of Jan. 25 Media Day
NASA is inviting media to look behind-the-scenes at several active Earth science missions that will take to the air next month to study climate change and air pollution. These airborne missions are al …
NASA Aerodynamics Legend Enters Aviation Hall of Fame
Aeronautics engineer Richard T. Whitcomb, whose legendary NASA research contributions made supersonic flight practical, will join other aerospace pioneers in the National Aviation Hall of Fame Saturda …