Research papers
5,883 papers · NASA NTRS, NTSB, FAA CAMI
NASA NTRS · 1,269 NTSB Safety Studies · 12 NTSB Aircraft Accident Reports · 17 Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons · 1,993
8 matches · Aircraft Design, Testing and Performance
- NASA NTRS 2025 ARC Presentation
Integration and Testing of a UAS Airspace Management System in the Wildland Firefighting Environment
NASA’s Advanced Capabilities for Emergency Response Operations (ACERO) project explores the use of technology to provide additional aerial support in the wildland firefighting environment by extending the use of Uncrewed…
- NASA NTRS 2025 LaRC Conference Paper
Aero-Propulsive Damping Characterization for eVTOL Aircraft Using Free Motion Wind-Tunnel Testing
This paper describes an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft system identification method applied using three degree-of-freedom (3DOF) free motion wind-tunnel testing.
- NASA NTRS 2024 LaRC Accepted Manuscript (Version with final changes)
Optimal Mission Profile for Low-Boom Supersonic Aircraft
An optimal mission profile, called the low-boom mission profile, is proposed for low-boom supersonic aircraft. The low-boom mission profile uses a fixed AoA for the cruise segment until reaching the cruise ceiling.
- NASA NTRS 2024 GRC Presentation
NASA Icing Update – Oct 2024
This presentation provides a status update on select NASA icing research activities for the SAE AC-9C Icing Technical Committee Meeting on Oct 21, 2024.
- NASA NTRS 2023 ARC Conference Paper
Vibration Anomaly Detection by Clustering in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
One of the critical factors affecting flight safety of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is the amount of vibration they are exposed to during a flight.
- NASA NTRS 2023 LaRC Presentation
An Overview of the NASA Lift+Cruise eVTOL Crash Test
Introduction – NASA RVLT Project Impact Dynamics / Crash Safety Task - Task Objective: “To improve the crashworthiness and impact safety of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) vehicle and provide data to simplify the certification …
- NASA NTRS 2023 GRC Presentation
Icing Physics Studies Using the 3D SIDRM Test Article: Aerodynamic and Supercooled Liquid Icing Analysis
In-flight icing is an important safety issue and is a factor that affects aircraft design and performance. Newer regulations are driving a need for improvements in airframe and engine icing simulation capability.
- NASA NTRS 2023 GRC Conference Paper
An MBSE Framework to Identify Regulatory Gaps for Electrified Transport Aircraft
A typical aircraft certification process consists of obtaining a type, production, airworthiness, and continued airworthiness certificates.