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X-48B Blended Wing Body
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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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Future Aircraft Images

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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Aeronautics Web Chats

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All aeronautics web chats and transcripts to date.

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Aeronautics in HD

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Aeronautics research videos in high definition.

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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.
Current Aircraft

Photos of aircraft flying at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center

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Students giving a presentation at NASA Headquarters.

Student Ideas for Aviation Wow NASA Audience

During Ideas in Flight, college students prove the future for U.S. aviation is promising.

The X-48C, transformed from the X-48B, recently took its first flight over the Mojave Desert in California. Image credit: NASA/Carla Thomas

X-48C: An X-Plane Transformer

A transformed remotely piloted aircraft could lead the way to a future of flight that is much quieter.

MSL Entry, Descent, and Landing Instrument, or MEDLI

Success for MSL Entry, Descent, & Landing Instrument

When the Curiosity rover landed on Mars on Aug. 6, researchers for the MSL Entry, Descent, & Landing Instrument (MEDLI) were already cheering.

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This artist's concept depicts the interaction of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft with the upper atmosphere of Mars during entry, descent and landing. A suite of sensors inside the heat shield will collect valuable data about high-speed, high-temperature (hypersonic) flight during Curiosity

Hitchhiking Sensors Capture Curiosity's Entry

NASA scientists specializing in hypersonic flight can't wait to get their hands on data that'll be captured during Curiosity's Mars landing.

The landing gear of NASA Dryden’s Gulfstream G-III aerodynamics research test bed aircraft, tail number 804, retracts after liftoff from Edwards Air Force Base. The aircraft flew a functional check flight on June 26, the first time it's flown in about two years.

G-III Aerodynamics Research Test Bed Goes Aloft

Modified G-III business jet makes functional check flight after preliminary design reviews for two aeronautical research projects completed.

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    Astronaut Neil Armstrong was a former test pilot. What was the most notable NASA aeronautics program with which Armstrong was involved before being chosen for the Gemini/Apollo missions?

    The X-15 Hypersonic Research Program
    The SSAT Supersonic Initiative
    The Boeing B-48 Stratojet II Consortium
    The NASA Hi-FLITE Demonstrator
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Blended Wing Body Aircraft Lifts Off

The remotely operated X-48C Blended Wing Body aircraft lifts off Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., on its first test flight Aug. 7, 2012.
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Lockheed YP-80A in the Altitude Wind Tunnel 1945

Lockheed YP-80A in the Altitude Wind Tunnel 1945
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Build the Future, Brick by Brick

The NASA meatball takes shape brick by brick thanks to hundreds of pieces of LEGO.
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Reaching Out, Flying High

Young visitors to the NASA aeronautics exhibit at the Joint Services Open House and Air Show in May near Washington, D.C., display their new body art.
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