Armstrong Flight Research Center - United Kingdom

The X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft flies above California. The plane has a distinctive shape with a long, sharply pointed nose. The nose is silver, while the rest of the body looks white. The words "NASA" and "X-59" are on the body of the aircraft. In the background, we can see brown earth below the plane as well as hazy mountains in the distance.

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NASA’s Quesst Mission Marks X-59’s Historic First Flight

21 November 2025

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft took off for its historic first flight on Oct. 28, 2025, at…

One man manages engine speed with a hand-held controller, while another firmly holds the subscale aircraft in place.

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NASA Lab Builds New Aircraft to Support Complex Flight Research

25 September 2025

NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, is building a new subscale aircraft to support increasingly complex…

A yellow traffic cone and a black tripod with black testing instruments stands in the foreground on a concrete pad with a desert landscape, power lines, and a black and white aircraft in the background. The aircraft has six black propellors that sit on white arms and connect to the aircraft body, which has black doors and is pod-shaped. The aircraft sits on three small wheels.

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NASA Studies Wind Effects and Aircraft Tracking with Joby Aircraft

19 April 2025

NASA engineers began using a network of ground sensors in March to collect data from an experimental air…

A plane begins to ascend from the runway on dim desert morning, heading toward the left of the frame. The wheels of the plane are still dropped and the nose of the plane is pointed upward toward higher skies, its tail featuring the NASA insignia. The helmeted pilot inside is barely visible through the cockpit window. Below a desert landscape with indiscernible buildings are flanked by a hazy mountain range in the distance.

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Testing in the Clouds: NASA Flies to Improve Satellite Data

17 April 2025

In February, NASA’s ER-2 science aircraft flew instruments designed to improve satellite data products and Earth science observations.…