NASA Aircraft Projects

[hesham]

Hi,

a very strange concept.

AIAA Aerospace Research Central

 

[hesham]

Hi,

Ground and Flight Evaulation of a Small Scale Inflatable-Winged Aircraft;

Ground and Flight Evaluation of a Small-Scale Inflatable-Winged Aircraft - NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

A small-scale, instrumented research aircraft was flown to investigate the night characteristics of innersole wings. Ground tests measured the static structural characteristics of the wing at different inflation pressures, and these results compared favorably with analytical predictions. A...

ntrs.nasa.gov

 

[Grey Havoc]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M24vAQ1f1UY

NASA's F/A-18 based High Alpha Research Vehicle (HARV) / Silk Purse

 

[hesham]

Hi,

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/SnAPII-twin-fuselage-concept-version-2-three-view-orthographic-drawing_fig55_2311653

 

[Grey Havoc]

Via Slashdot: http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/23/7879311/nasa-mars-autonomous-helicopter-drone

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH2tKigOPBU

 

[Grey Havoc]

Mars helicopter Ingenuity: First aircraft to fly on Red Planet

The first flight of the Mars helicopter was "a true extraterrestrial Wright Brothers moment."

www.space.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

An AFRL-SBIR/NASA project from 2015 that may be of interest:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfHUZ2C3HyA

Air Force SBIR/STTR
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In the spring of 2015, the Air Force Research Lab and NASA successfully completed tests to realize a decades long quest in aviation to seamlessly change the shape of aircraft wings in flight. This breakthrough technology will usher in a new era in aviation design. The Air Force is now applying the technology, developed by FlexSys, to a KC-135 under an agreement between FlexSys and Boeing. When further commercialized, the FlexSys Technology will lead to billions of dollars in annual fuel savings, reduced manufacturing costs, and quieter, lighter aircraft, a breakthrough in aviation made possible by the Air Force Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer Program.

 

[Grey Havoc]

Possibly related, NASA Morphing Wing project from the early 2000s.

 

[Grey Havoc]

See a helicopter on Mars for first time! Perseverance drops Ingenuity’s cover

View: https://youtu.be/fc9xrjGbuIM

 

[Grey Havoc]

NASA's Ingenuity prepares for its Wright Brothers moment on Mars

NASA gave details of the first flight on another planet that will see the Ingenuity helicopter soar 9ft above Mars' surface, hover and then land again - which determines the fate of the copter's mission.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Grey Havoc]

Perseverance drops Ingenuity helicopter on Mars! First Pics:

View: https://youtu.be/E3ALZjxTZ7w

 

[Grey Havoc]

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/perseverance-rover.27684/post-449080

 

[Grey Havoc]

Sunglider builds on legacy of solar aircraft

A remotely piloted solar aircraft has demonstrated it can hover in the stratosphere to provide cellular networks in isolated areas. It also demonstrated remote

www.aerotechnews.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

Iran vows revenge for 'Israeli' attack on Natanz nuclear site

Iran's foreign ministry blames Israel for Sunday's incident at the Natanz uranium enrichment plant.

www.bbc.com

ORIGINAL CAPTION: Artist's illustration of NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter flying on the Red Planet. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

 

[Grey Havoc]

Not sure what happened to the link there, will try to fix it when I have a moment!

 

[Grey Havoc]

From 1969, 'Nuclear powered VTOL aircraft', NASA Lewis Research Center:

Nuclear powered VTOL aircraft - CORE Reader

core.ac.uk

 

[hesham]

Hi,

did we speak about it before ?.

0.65% Scale Tri-Jet Low-Boom Model 1044 - NASA

Tri-jet supersonic transport low-boom model 1044 mounted in Ames 9-by 7-toot supersonic wind tunnel for measurement of sonic boom and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) validation data.

www.nasa.gov

 

[ORFWrench]

Full size Cessna-like single engined plane used for configuration testing.

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19700013310_1970013310.pdf

That's a Piper PA-24 Comanche in the Full Scale wind tunnel

 

[hesham]

Hi,

http://archive.aviationweek.com/image/spread/19730326/26/2

From Aviation magazine 1973.

 

[hesham]

From Aviation magazine 1977,

it looks like the aircraft in reply# 64?.

 

[piginapoke]

There's guaranteed to be a set of criteria for allocating an X designation but I wonder why Ingeniuty didn't get one?

 

[hesham]

There's guaranteed to be a set of criteria for allocating an X designation but I wonder why Ingeniuty didn't get one?

You talk about what ?.

 

[piginapoke]

There's guaranteed to be a set of criteria for allocating an X designation but I wonder why Ingeniuty didn't get one?

You talk about what ?.

Ingenuity is mentioned on here as a NASA aircraft project, hence the question.

 

[hesham]

Ingenuity is mentioned on here as a NASA aircraft project, hence the question.

You meant in Reply # 220 ?.

 

[piginapoke]

Ingenuity is mentioned on here as a NASA aircraft project, hence the question.

You meant in Reply # 220 ?.

Is it? It wasn't meant to be a reply to 220. I saw no quoted message in my post either.

 

[hesham]

Hi,

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20180008648/downloads/20180008648.pdf

 

[Grey Havoc]

Space.com story on the 33rd flight of Ingenuity:

Ingenuity Mars helicopter notches 33rd Red Planet flight

Ingenuity has been busy lately.

www.space.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

Via the EnergyAndPower reddit:

NASA Seeks to Create a Better Battery with SABERS

NASA Seeks to Create a Better Battery with SABERS

www.nasa.gov

ORIGINAL CAPTION:
New battery designs that are safer than today’s models will be required to power tomorrow’s electric-propelled aircraft like the one shown in this illustration. A NASA research project called SABERS is testing new ways to combine both familiar and exotic materials to build that better battery.
Credits: NASA

 

[hesham]

NASA Fan-On-Flap STOL concept, with sixteen (16) trailing edge turbines, driven by four (4) jet engines on pods. This photo currently for sale on eBay, without the graffiti.

Hi,

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/STOL-transport-aircraft-concept-with-compressor-bleed-air-tip-driven-multi-fans-along_fig12_356848701

 

[hesham]

Hi,

https://books.googleusercontent.com/books/content?req=AKW5QacsUMYrj8b-tfJdJaffxhZ0vZl_wS7y--3PJxkGr1dkQiUGQm6xXCbQZJglK5BfvP-7lPGhTZE0m6Uu2hLHhx3QWz82XgFaGH224qXCzNr-cqbVsnpT9mr4qkFdo6RktBCNnxo3WtNUDTz_T25jxDrsq1m-itpEYYMEu_1AV9QzxAu1X4MpSzEEOktKAeygb6-JlS6MaM3DuMbm3EaG-i3y77YRDEGWQ4v2y1MwAL69zFR3ReOYawsdMgj_Vaw-UMj1BF6V

 

[hesham]

From this report.

 

[hesham]

From Hearing 1963.

 

[hesham]

From, Prediction methods for jet V/STOL propultion.

 

[hesham]

From Hearing report.

 

[hesham]

From Hearing report.

 

[hesham]

From Naval Air System Command 1975.

 

[hesham]

From this report,

the Reduced Fuel Consumption.

 

[hesham]

From this report.

 

[hesham]

From this report.

 

[hesham]

From Naval Aviation News 1955.