{"id":258904,"date":"2025-07-30T01:30:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T15:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=f4159d5c22f98725d28c5084f6189606"},"modified":"2025-07-30T01:30:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T15:30:50","slug":"nasa-drop-test-supports-safer-air-taxi-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=258904","title":{"rendered":"NASA Drop Test Supports Safer Air Taxi Designs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An aircraft\u00a0body modeled after an air taxi with weighted test dummies inside is being prepared for a drop test by researchers at NASA\u2019s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The test was completed June 26, 2025, at Langley\u2019s Landing and Impact Research Facility.\u00a0The aircraft was dropped from a tall steel structure, known as a gantry, after being hoisted about 35 feet in the air by cables. NASA researchers are investigating aircraft materials that best absorb impact forces in a crash.<\/div>\n
NASA\/Mark Knopp<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

As the aviation industry works to design air taxis and other new electric aircraft, there\u2019s a growing need to understand how the materials behave. That\u2019s why NASA is investigating potential air taxi materials and designs to best protect passengers in the event of a crash.<\/p>\n

On June 26, 2025, at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, researchers dropped a full-scale aircraft body<\/a> modeled after an air taxi from a tall steel structure, known as a gantry.<\/p>\n

The NASA researchers behind this test and a previous one in late 2022<\/a> investigated materials that best absorb impact forces, generating data that will enable manufacturers to design safer advanced air mobility<\/a> aircraft.<\/p>\n

Image Credit: NASA\/Mark Knopp<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the aviation industry works to design air taxis and other new electric aircraft, there\u2019s\u00a0a growing need to understand how the materials behave. That\u2019s why\u00a0NASA is investigating potential air taxi materials and designs to best protect passengers in the event of a crash. On June 26, 2025, at NASA\u2019s\u00a0Langley Research Center\u00a0in Hampton, Virginia, researchers dropped [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258904"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259011,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258904\/revisions\/259011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}