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NASA grounds electric aircraft project
While the electric aircraft prototype never flew, NASA officials say the project provided groundbreaking research and technology for the future of electric aviation.
NASA’s Mars helicopter completes 50th flight
“When we first flew, we thought we would be incredibly lucky to eke out five flights,” said Teddy Tzanetos, Ingenuity team lead at JPL. “We have exceeded our expected cumulative flight time since our technology demonstration wrapped by 1,250% and expected distance flown by 2,214%.”
Learn how NASA is transforming aviation
NASA is holding a free virtual event called imaginAviation, which will focus on how the agency transforms its research innovations “into new possibilities for aviation for the benefit of humanity,” according to NASA officials.
Creating clouds for icing research
What a cool job: Emily Timko works for NASA, creating clouds and ice in the agency’s Icing Research Tunnel to see what affect the weather has on aircraft components.
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Team wins Collier Trophy
To date, Ingenuity’s official logbook has entries for 24 flights and a cumulative flight time of over 43 minutes.
Sign up for NASA’s Flight Log Experience
You’ll get to “fly along” on two milestone flights of NASA aircraft, including the X-57 and supersonic X-59.
NASA taps university students to research eliminating aircraft emissions
“Aviation of the future has to be climate friendly to keep the world flying, and a great way to do that is to allow tomorrow’s top minds to begin making contributions to these goals while still in school.”
Acronyms – Beware the creep
NASA seeks BVLOS flight-corridors for AAM vehicles. UAS will test ConOps between CERTAIN and USRTC. This AAM HDV will pave the way for more complex routing of larger UAM aircraft.