Advanced Air Vehicles Program - United States

A hybrid engine, with its intake facing the camera, is mounted into a large, white scaffolding system. In the scaffolding structure to the hybrid engine’s left is a monitoring station in a modified shipping container. A series of pipes and wires to the engine’s right and above it, connecting the unit to the systems that provide it with fuel and collect data on its operations.

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NASA, GE Aerospace Hybrid Engine System Marks Successful Test

January 27, 2026

To an untrained eye, the aircraft engine sitting outside of a Cincinnati facility in December might have looked like…

A man is adjusting a propeller blade attached to a test model, with a blue-lit background.

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NASA Uses Wind Tunnel to Test Advanced Air Mobility Aircraft Wing

August 8, 2025

The advanced air mobility industry is currently working to produce novel aircraft ranging from air taxis to autonomous…