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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GE Aerospace partners with NASA Langley to study airplane contrails
(WAVY) — The General Electric Aerospace’s 747 is one big plane ... “This week we were up generating contrails, and NASA was flying around, scanning those contrails with a LIDAR instrument ...