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Blended wing body prototype in the Langley Full-Scale Tunnel


TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE: 2006
TAMDAR installed on a Mesaba Airlines jet. + First Results in on TAMDAR
The Tropospheric Airborne Meteorological Data Report (TAMDAR) instrument allows aircraft flying below 25,000 feet to detect and report atmospheric conditions.
Blue circle with date 01.05. + NASA Wind Tunnel Tests New Aviation Concepts
The National Transonic Facility (NTF) at NASA Langley Research Center was the site for tests by the Boeing Company to evaluate high-lift system designs for its new 787 jet aircraft.
F-15 in flight. + F-15 Tests Intelligent Controls
NASA conducted a series of flight tests of the Intelligent Flight Control System (IFCS) this month under the direction of the Aviation Safety program.
history icon + Death of aviation pioneer A. Scott Crossfield
NASA's flexible-wing F/A-18 maneuvers through a test point during the second phase of the NASA/Air Force Active Aeroelastic Wing flight research program. + Blended Wing Body Takes Test
In May, engineers installed a small-scale prototype of a blended wing body concept for testing at the Langley Full-Scale Tunnel at NASA's Langley Research Center.
One of two small APV-3 aircraft flown in the joint Ames-Dryden Networked UAV Teaming Experiment flares for landing on a roadway on a remote area of Edwards AFB. + High Temp Tunnel Goes Hypersonic
The 8-Foot High Temperature Tunnel at NASA's Langley Research Center was the site of testing of Pratt Whitney Rocketdyne's (PWR) hypersonic Ground Demonstrator Engine No. 2 (GDE-2).




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