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NASA Aeronautics is enabling dramatic improvements in aeronautics during the 21st century. For decades, aeronautics research has developed and transferred new technologies directly benefiting the entire aviation community, including the public. 

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Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD)

NASA’s aeronautics programs focus on six areas of research that develop solutions to the major challenges and opportunities for aviation: a growing demand for mobility, the sustainability of energy and the environment, and technology advances in information, communications and automation.

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Artist concept of urban air mobility vehicles in flight over a city.

Aeronautics research mission directorate (ARMD) programs

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Advanced Air Vehicles Program (AAVP)

Advanced Air Vehicles Program (AAVP)

Airspace Operations and Safety Program (AOSP)

Airspace Operations and Safety Program (AOSP)

Integrated Aviation Systems Program (IASP)

Integrated Aviation Systems Program (IASP)

Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program (TACP)

Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program (TACP)

Next Generation Experimental Aircraft Becomes NASA’s Newest X-Plane

The X-66A is the first X-plane specifically focused on helping the United States achieve the goal of net-zero aviation greenhouse gas emissions, which was articulated in the White House’s U.S. Aviation Climate Action Plan.

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X-66A Transonic Truss-Braced Wing.
The X-66A is the X-plane specifically aimed at helping the United States achieve the goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. To build the X-66A, Boeing will work with NASA to modify an MD-90 aircraft, shortening the fuselage and replacing its wings and engines. The resulting demonstrator aircraft will have long, thin wings with engines mounted underneath and a set of aerodynamic trusses for support. The design, which Boeing submitted for NASA’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project, is known as a Transonic Truss-Braced Wing.
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Testing on the Ground Before You Fly: Wind Tunnels at NASA Ames

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World's largest wind tunnels at Aerodynamics Complex at NASA’s Ames Research Center
This system of fans moves air through the world’s largest wind tunnels, at the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. Each of the six fans is 40 feet in diameter and is driven by a 22,500-horsepower electric motor. Two figures near fan 5 give a sense of scale.
Credits: NASA/Ames Research Center/Tom Trower

Quesst: The Mission

NASA's aeronautical innovators are leading a government-industry team to collect data that could make supersonic flight over land possible, dramatically reducing travel time in the United States or anywhere in the world.

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