Tag Archives: NASA
Tag Archives: NASA
Special Aircraft TrackingSmell 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 aviation fuel. The collaboration sends the NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center’s DC-8-72 Flying Laboratory to Germany for paired flying with the DLR’s A320 Advanced Technology Research Aircraft. Read More
By Ian Petchenik
Special EventChasing 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 in hundreds of flights also enjoyed the eclipse from the air. Read More
By Ian Petchenik
AvTalk PodcastAvTalk 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 study the eclipse, and we list some of our favorite airports. We also talk with Dan Kierna, an airport operations supervisor at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago about what it takes … Read More
By Ian Petchenik
Special Aircraft TrackingNASA 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 an airport in a given time period. The tool, Flight Deck Interval Management (FIM), is being developed as part of NASA’s larger Air Traffic Management (ATM) Technology Demonstration – 1 (ATD-1). Read More
By Ian Petchenik
Special Aircraft TrackingTracking 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 to go to space to do so. NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and commercial operators have multiple scientific programs based on airborne platforms that operate anywhere from 500 feet to … Read More
By Ian Petchenik