If you look out the window of a spacecraft entering a planet’s atmosphere, the only view would be a wall of fire. For reentry into Earth’s atmosphere,
At Ames, our wind tunnels take models of commercial spacecraft and blast them with
Danish physicist Niels Bohr was among several who used similar language when publicly musing about the shape of things to come: “It is very difficult to
but also validating and complementing research done in NASA laboratories and wind tunnels
What is the Vertical Motion Simulator?
based on aircraft math models developed using real data from actual aircraft, wind tunnels
If Charles Walcott, one of the first members of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) had his way, instead of airplanes today we would all be
aeronautical pioneers, conducting research at its world-class laboratories and wind tunnels
February 2023 issue of Ames‘ newsletter, the Astrogram
rewarding career working on a wide range of projects, from rocket motors to wind tunnels
Look! Up in the sky. It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s… National Aviation Day!
Fundamental problems with flight were being solved on the drawing boards and in the wind tunnels
That airplane is NASA’s X-59 QueSST (short for Quiet SuperSonic Technology), an experimental piloted aircraft designed to fly faster than sound without
Based on decades of research into supersonic flight that included work in wind tunnels
The following Armstrong e-books are available for viewing and printing.
including wind shear and lightning research, flight operations, human factors, wind tunnels
On Tuesday, June 8, at 2 p.m. in the Main Auditorium (N201), Dr. Darlene Lim will present the first colloquium in the 2010 Director’s Colloquium Summer Series
This is an opportunity to learn about some of the cool work we do in the wind tunnels
