Illustration of the completed X-59 QueSST landing on a runway. Credit: Lockheed Martin NASA’s first large scale, piloted X-plane in more than three decades is…
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Christopher J. Hernandez, associate professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and in the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, explains how seemingly…
Professor Zhiyong (Richard) Liang and research faculty member Ayou Hao holding pieces of carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites with a protective heat shield made of…
Skilled pilots approaching a runway usually can’t see small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) encroaching on their airspace, and they virtually never detect motionless drones, a…
Composite metal foam, with ruler for scale. Credit: Afsaneh Rabiei The leading edges of aircraft wings have to meet a very demanding set of characteristics.…
NASA’s X-57 Maxwell, the agency’s first all-electric X-plane and first crewed X-planed in two decades, is delivered to NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards,…