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  Quiet, Efficient Supersonics Within Sight?

  Posted by Graham Warwick 2:28 PM on Mar 29, 2012

  NASA is claiming a breakthrough in quiet supersonic aircraft, with successful windtunnel tests of designs that combine low sonic boom and low cruise drag - characteristics once tho... Read More >>

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  Blown Lift - Cal Poly's AMELIA STOL-liner

  Posted by Graham Warwick 4:27 PM on Mar 21, 2012

  One of the unconventional aircraft configurations NASA is researching is a cruise-efficient short take-off and landing (CESTOL) airliner that would be able to make steep approaches... Read More >>

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  LNG Propulsion - A Cool Idea?

  Posted by Graham Warwick 10:17 PM on Mar 19, 2012

  What technologies could be available for an airliner entering service in 2045 that would not be ready in time for aircraft fielded in 2030? That's what NASA asked when it awarded B... Read More >>

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  New detail on flying wing airliner

  Posted by Guy Norris 3:52 AM on Jan 20, 2012

  Northrop Grumman has revealed intriguing details about the flying wing airliner and freighter versions it has proposed as the ‘preferred systems concept’ for NASA&rsquo... Read More >>

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  Channeled Inlet Means Better Supersonics

  Posted by Graham Warwick 10:44 PM on Jan 03, 2012

  NASA has flight tested an inlet that promises to improve the efficiency of supersonic and hypersonic engines. The Channeled Centerbody Inlet Experiment (CCIE) was flown at speeds u... Read More >>

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  Avoidance App - avoiding terrain with a smartphone

  Posted by Guy Norris 6:48 PM on Nov 21, 2011

  A lightweight automatic ground collision avoidance system (Auto GCAS) which depends on a terrain database of the entire world housed in a smart phone is being flight tested by NASA... Read More >>

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  Canada, US Step up War on Airframe Noise

  Posted by Graham Warwick 2:29 PM on Oct 27, 2011

  As engines get quieter, airframe-generated sound is becoming a dominant contributor to aircraft noise on the approach to landing. As a result, research is accelerating into underst... Read More >>

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  Then There Were Three - News From Green Flight

  Posted by Graham Warwick 7:58 PM on Sep 28, 2011

  Speaking from California's Sonoma County Airport, site of the Green Flight Challenge, Sam Ortega, NASA's program manager for Centennial Challenges, reveals only three of the origin... Read More >>

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  Photos From NASA's Green Flight Challenge

  Posted by Graham Warwick 5:38 PM on Sep 28, 2011

  Pictures are coming in from NASA's Green Flight Challenge, sponsored by Google and organized by the CAFE Foundation. The goal is to achieve at least 200 passenger-mpg while averagi... Read More >>

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  How to Prove Quiet Supersonics Can Work

  Posted by Graham Warwick 4:44 PM on May 27, 2011

  Concept: Lockheed MartinBoeing and Lockheed Martin are working on designs for low-boom supersonic airliners under NASA contracts that include windtunnel tests to validate they can ... Read More >>

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