Which Boeing 747 Variant Was Used As The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft?
Famously, NASA heavily modified two Boeing 747 Jumbo jets to carry its Space Shuttles (they are called the Space Shuttle ...
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Behind The Scenes Of NASA And GE Aerospace's Collaborative Contrails Flight Tests
GE's Boeing 747 testbed took to the skies for several days, trailed by a NASA jet that conducted three-dimensional imaging of contrails for continuing study. Contrails are clouds made of ice ...
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Photos: NASA shows off technology used to study contrails formed by aircrafts
NASA Langley Research Center’s G-III aircraft sits in front of GE Aerospace’s Flying Test Bed, a Boeing 747, at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton on Monday, Nov. 25, 2024. The G-III ...
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NASA And General Electric Team Up To Study Contrails
The flight testing for this program will include the General Electric flying testbed, a Boeing 747-400, and the NASA Langley Research Center's research aircraft, a modified Gulfstream GIII ...
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NASA's Gulfstream G-III will use lidar technology to scan contrails of GE's Boeing 747 An inflight engine failure suffered by a cargo 747-400 involved a smaller version of the PW4000 that failed ...