{"id":240086,"date":"2025-12-18T23:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/240086\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T23:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:46:12","slug":"nasa-lab-completes-engine-checks-on-new-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/240086\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Lab Completes Engine Checks on New Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Hall, left, controls a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-article\/nasa-lab-builds-new-aircraft-to-support-complex-flight-research\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">subscale aircraft<\/a> as Justin Link holds the aircraft in place during preliminary engine tests on Friday, Sept. 12, 2025, at NASA\u2019s Armstong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California.<\/p>\n<p>Hall, chief pilot at the center\u2019s Dale Reed Subscale Flight Research Laboratory, and Link, a pilot for small uncrewed aircraft systems, are building the large subscale aircraft to support increasingly complex flight research, offering a more flexible and cost-effective alternative to crewed missions. Once ready, the aircraft will help evaluate new concepts, technologies, and flight controls to support NASA missions on Earth and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Image Credit: NASA\/Christopher LC Clark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Hall, left, controls a subscale aircraft as Justin Link holds the aircraft in place during preliminary engine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[270],"tags":[15728,18,19,17,133,451],"class_list":{"0":"post-240086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-armstrong-flight-research-center","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-space"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115743240086854239","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}