What role will F-15 jets play in the future of supersonic flight?

A team of NASA scientists deployed on an international mission designed to better understand severe winter storms. The North American Upstream Feature-Resolving and Tropopause Uncertainty Reconnaissance Experiment,

The WB-57 is a high-altitude research aircraft operated by NASA and based in Houston. Here’s what the plane is and what it’s used for.

To help meet that challenge, The University of Texas at Arlington has received a three-year, $750,000 grant from NASA’s MUREP program to develop a new class of impact-resistant materials designed to protect next-generation aircraft during extreme landing or collision events.

To an untrained eye, the aircraft engine sitting outside of a Cincinnati facility in December might have looked like standard hardware. But NASA and GE Aerospace researchers watching the unit fire up for a demonstration knew what they were looking at: a hybrid engine performing at a level that could potentially power an airliner.

An F-15 is helping NASA to gather valuable insights into how future commercial jets could save fuel and reduce the price passengers pay for airline tickets.