NASA Using Lasers To Test Boeing's X-Plane
- 8 years ago
NASA is on a mission to find a quieter, cleaner, and faster means of super high-speed air travel and is now testing a Boeing-designed X-plane.
NASA is on a mission to find a quieter, cleaner, and faster means of super high-speed air travel and is now testing a Boeing-designed X-plane.
According to an agency release, the performance of a, “…six-percent scale model…” is being assessed in a, “…14-by 22-Foot Subsonic Tunnel at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.”
NASA also notes this craft is unique in that, “…it's shaped more like a triangle where the wings are, in essence, merged into the body. Another difference is that it does not have a tail.”
For testing purposes, “…The top of it has been painted in non-reflective matte black to accommodate laser lights that will sweep across the model in sheets…those laser sheets combined with smoke…will map the airflow over the model.”
NASA is on a mission to find a quieter, cleaner, and faster means of super high-speed air travel and is now testing a Boeing-designed X-plane.
According to an agency release, the performance of a, “…six-percent scale model…” is being assessed in a, “…14-by 22-Foot Subsonic Tunnel at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.”
NASA also notes this craft is unique in that, “…it's shaped more like a triangle where the wings are, in essence, merged into the body. Another difference is that it does not have a tail.”
For testing purposes, “…The top of it has been painted in non-reflective matte black to accommodate laser lights that will sweep across the model in sheets…those laser sheets combined with smoke…will map the airflow over the model.”