Tag: NASA
AAV News in Brief 21 July 2024
Etihad welcomes new MRO trainees: Etihad Engineering welcomed the first batch of aircraft maintenance trainees from Vision Concept Aviation Training Institute (VCATI) who graduated...
GE Aerospace advances hybrid electric engine development
GE Aerospace is developing a hybrid electric demonstrator engine with NASA that will embed electric motor/generators in a high-bypass commercial turbofan to supplement power...
Airbus, NASA monitor climate change from space
Airbus has been awarded a contract to design and build the GRACE-C twin spacecraft by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL (Pasadena, California). This new...
GE Aerospace wins NASA contract for next phase of advanced engine...
NASA has awarded GE Aerospace a contract for Phase 2 of the Hybrid Thermally Efficient Core (HyTEC) program, supporting continued technology development for the...
Airplane arrives at Boeing site for X-66A modification
Boeing has ferried an MD-90 airplane to the site where it will be modified to test the Transonic Truss-Braced Wing (TTBW) configuration as part...
Airlines to support NASA-Boeing sustainable flight demonstrator project
Boeing and NASA will collaborate with U.S. airlines to advise the Sustainable Flight Demonstrator (SFD) project and development of the X-66A research aircraft. As part...
NZ’s Airways partners with NASA to launch stadium-sized balloon to the...
NASA has successfully launched a stadium-sized super pressure balloon from Wānaka Airport, with Airways New Zealand safely managing its ascent to the edge of...
Boeing wins NASA deal for ‘greener’ aircraft
NASA announced Wednesday (18 January) it has issued an award to Boeing for the agency’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project, which seeks to inform a...
Pratt & Whitney working on NASA HyTEC project
Pratt & Whitney has been selected by NASA to develop advanced engine technologies to reduce fuel consumption and emissions for next generation single-aisle aircraft....
Air New Zealand joins NASA climate research
Air New Zealand’s daily operations are now helping to enable new research into climate change, with a ground-breaking approach to collecting data for the...