The Ikhana project's new manager has a special appreciation for the unique aircraft's potential.
Jay Levine
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The Ikhana project's new manager has a special appreciation for the unique aircraft's potential.
Meeting complex requirements for the Ikhana to enter the national airspace, where piloted aircraft fly, has become Greg Buoni's area of expertise.
The Ikhana uninhabited aircraft system is flying research missions with an advanced sensing technology installed on its wings that measures and displays the shape of the aircraft's wings in flight.
Guiding a mission remotely from a ground cockpit without the feel, smells and sounds of a traditional aircraft and the environment in which it flies is a challenge routinely tackled by Dryden Ikhana p...
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA made its debut at Dryden June 27 following three successful checkout flights in Waco, Texas
Excitement is a cure for apathy and that's what Erik Lindbergh, grandson of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh, believes NASA's new airborne observatory will bring to the world.
The only thing more impressive than an airborne observatory that carries a 17-metric-ton telescope is the potential for equally weighty new breakthroughs in astronomy.
For as long as humans have stared up into the night sky, curiosity about the heavens has drawn their gaze. It is this fundamental need to know the unknown - and a desire for the ever-larger telescopes needed to find it - that has led Americans and Germans to forge a partnership aimed at unlocking the mysteries of the heavens.
Gordon Fullerton knows a thing or three about specially modified 747 aircraft.
The Western States Unmanned Aircraft Systems Fire Mission is scheduled to begin Aug. 14.
Flying wing on steroids could mark the shape of things to come in aviation
Dryden's Flight Loads Laboratory is one of the only government facilities available for researching mechanical and thermal loads simultaneously on everything from large structures or systems up to full-sized aircraft.
Dryden technicians integrated the Sandia Darts onto the center's utility vehicle aircraft and after several modifications, air launched the Darts from about 3,000 feet in an attempt to characterize the Darts' aerodynamics.
Dryden's Emergency Operations Center is coordinating the center's involvement in the Great California ShakeOut.
A temporary exhibit titled "Space Race to Space Partnership: The Evolution of U.S.-Russian Relations in Orbit" is now on display in the Dryden Visitor Center and Gift Shop through the end of the year.
It was Aerospace Appreciation Night Aug. 9 at the Lancaster JetHawks nest at Clear Channel Stadium and Dryden legend Bill Dana was the featured honoree.
Vladimir Titov, the only living individual to have survived a spacecraft's abort on the launch pad, visited Dryden July 16 to speak about his experiences and view the center's work on the Orion Flight Test crew module, known as Pad Abort 1.