Where NASA’s Renewed X-Plane Drive Could Take Aviation

Emagine aircraft concept

Cummings’ Emagine concept combines several NASA-sponsored technology innovations.

Credit: Gil Hezkia
Addressing NASA staff at a town hall in December, on just his second day on the job, Administrator Jared Isaacman called for more experimental X-planes to push the boundaries in radical airframe designs and propulsion. NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate briefed industry in late April on...
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