NASA hopes the ban on commercial supersonic flight over land can be lifted by replacing the loud sonic boom with a softer sonic “thump.” A sonic boom happens
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as a virtual wind tunnel test.
Purpose
Units of raw data from SDS wind tunnel data acquisition system are in “Counts” (one
A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to the International
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NASA and its partners are using a generically shaped wing research model to better understand how air moves around an aircraft during takeoff and landing.
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Abe Silverstein began his career at the center in 1943, pioneering early jet technology. Dr. Silverstein was responsible for the conception, design, and
In this role, Silverstein led Langley’s World War II effort to use the tunnel to
Mountains of data will be required if NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology airplane is going to help change the future of commercial supersonic
-59 QueSST’s air data probe is mounted inside the 8- by- 6-foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel
Timko is an icing cloud calibration engineer at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland and works with a team of 14 other engineers and technicians to
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He also helped design Langley’s first wind tunnel.
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