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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...
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Grey Havoc said:
An AFRL-SBIR/NASA project from 2015 that may be of interest:

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



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

did we speak about it before ?.

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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.
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There's guaranteed to be a set of criteria for allocating an X designation but I wonder why Ingeniuty didn't get one?
 
Via the EnergyAndPower reddit:
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NASA Seeks to Create a Better Battery with SABERS

NASA Seeks to Create a Better Battery with SABERS
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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
 
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From this report.
 

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From Hearing 1963.
 

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From, Prediction methods for jet V/STOL propultion.
 

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From Hearing report.
 

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From Hearing report.
 

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From Naval Air System Command 1975.
 

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From this report,

the Reduced Fuel Consumption.
 

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From this report.
 

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From this report.
 

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From Naval Aviation News 1955.
 

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