Smell My Exhaust—NASA’s DC-8 to spend time sniffing the DLR’s A320 over Germany This week, NASA and the DLR began the ND-MAX research program designed to understand engine performance, emissions, and contrail formation from different types of…
Chasing the 2017 Eclipse Across the Sky On Monday, 21 August, millions across the United States turned skyward for a few moments to enjoy a total solar eclipse. Thousands of people…
AvTalk Episode 12: Out on the Airfield On episode 12 of AvTalk, we discuss Air Berlin’s insolvency and what that might mean for other airlines in Europe, NASA gets ready to…
NASA Completes ATD-1 Flight Testing NASA, Honeywell, Boeing, and United Airlines spent the month of February testing a new technology that could enable more aircraft to safely land at…
Tracking Airborne Science Around the World When scientists want to study the upper atmosphere, look deep into space, or free themselves from the effects of gravity, they don’t necessarily need…