This NASA Aircraft page will showcase NASA’s aircraft operations that enable the Agency’s myriad missions, from preparing astronauts to go to space, to studying Earth from the air, to developing leading-edge aeronautic technologies.
calls from your home or office in the cockpit of the X-59 or from inside a wind tunnel
Electro-static Levitation Furnace (ELF): The crew removed and cleaned sample cartridge #3 from the ELF and installed a new sample cartridge. The ground then initiated an experiment run. ELF is an experimental facility designed to levitate, melt and solidify materials by containerless processing techniques using the electrostatic levitation method. With this facility thermophysical properties of …
acceleration caused by radiative heat feedback from the surrounding walls and a tunnel
In the wake of recent success with air-to-air schlieren photography using the speckled desert floor as a background, researchers at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, are now looking to the heavens for backgrounds upon which to capture images of supersonic shock waves using ground-based cameras.
intensity of air density gradients around the test object, usually a model in a wind tunnel
NASA flew two modified Boeing 747 jetliners, originally manufactured for commercial use, as Space Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. One is a 747-123 model, while the
A flight crew escape system, consisting of an exit tunnel extending from the flight
Payloads: Cerebral Augmentation: The crew set up the appropriate hardware and participated in a Cerebral Autoregulation science session. As the body’s most important organ, the brain needs a strong and reliable blood supply, so the brain is capable of self-regulating blood flow even when the heart and blood vessels cannot maintain an ideal blood pressure. …
Various solid fuels are burned under different conditions and observed inside a flow tunnel
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That work has included supersonic wind tunnel tests of a scale model at NASA’s Glenn
Confined Combustion: The crew continued the experiment, including an ignition of a SIBAL sample with no baffles installed, and two ignitions with the silver baffles installed (3 total ignitions completed today). The baffles are used to change the airflow path and alter the radiated heat environment around the flame. This project aims to study flame …
acceleration caused by radiative heat feedback from the surrounding walls and a tunnel
CIR/ACME (Combustion Integration Rack/Advanced Combustion via Microgravity Experiments): In support of the continuing s-Flame investigation, the crew exchanged the ACME Bypass Controller and the ACME Fuel Controller. These controllers allow different flow regimes to be used for the experiment. The purpose of s-Flame is to advance our ability to predict the structure and dynamics, including …
suspected to be due to a combination of thermal expansion during combustion and tunnel
High over the Mojave Desert, two NASA F-15 research jets made a series of flights throughout May to validate tools designed to measure and record the shock
Other tools, like computer simulations that predict airflow and wind tunnel tests
Increasing efficiency in aerospace vehicles is a key goal across the spectrum of NASA operations. Armstrong researchers are constantly striving to build
a known and tested propeller to generate models, compare these results to wind tunnel
