Viewed from space, the most striking feature of our planet is the water. In both liquid and frozen form, it…
Researchers checked out emissions detection equipment set up behind NASA’s DC-8 flying laboratory during ground tests of alternative biofuels derived…
This aircraft design faces the future head-on.
Designed for efficiency, the D8 has a very wide fuselage to provide extra lift and low-swept wings to reduce drag…
Professor Mark Drela (center), chief engineer of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology aircraft design team, helps undergraduate students Nina Siu…
One of the advanced design concepts – the D8 or “double bubble” – is now a subscale model being tested…
Like rivers of liquid water, glaciers flow downhill, with tributaries joining to form larger rivers. But where water rushes, ice…
