{"id":332846,"date":"2025-12-19T05:26:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=b02a95eeefa3017778bfc9eb05eac582"},"modified":"2025-12-19T05:26:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:26:40","slug":"nasa-lab-completes-engine-checks-on-new-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=332846","title":{"rendered":"NASA Lab Completes Engine Checks on New Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/afrc2025-0154-21orig.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1366\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/afrc2025-0154-21orig.jpg?w=1366\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"One white man with a long beard and tattoos on his arms holds a silver and gray controller, while another white man leans over to hold a small aircraft in place. The two men are both wearing hearing protection, which look like headphones. The aircraft looks to be only a few feet tall.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/afrc2025-0154-21orig.jpg 3848w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/afrc2025-0154-21orig.jpg?resize=200,300 200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/afrc2025-0154-21orig.jpg?resize=768,1152 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/afrc2025-0154-21orig.jpg?resize=683,1024 683w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/afrc2025-0154-21orig.jpg?resize=1024,1536 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/afrc2025-0154-21orig.jpg?resize=1366,2048 1366w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/afrc2025-0154-21orig.jpg?resize=267,400 267w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/afrc2025-0154-21orig.jpg?resize=400,600 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/afrc2025-0154-21orig.jpg?resize=600,900 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/afrc2025-0154-21orig.jpg?resize=800,1200 800w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/afrc2025-0154-21orig.jpg?resize=1334,2000 1334w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1366px) 100vw, 1366px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA\/Christopher LC Clark<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Justin Hall, left, controls a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-article\/nasa-lab-builds-new-aircraft-to-support-complex-flight-research\/\">subscale aircraft<\/a> as Justin Link holds the aircraft in place during preliminary engine tests on Friday, Sept. 12, 2025, at NASA\u2019s Armstong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California.<\/p>\n<p>Hall, chief pilot at the center\u2019s Dale Reed Subscale Flight Research Laboratory, and Link, a pilot for small uncrewed aircraft systems, are building the large subscale aircraft to support increasingly complex flight research, offering a more flexible and cost-effective alternative to crewed missions. Once ready, the aircraft will help evaluate new concepts, technologies, and flight controls to support NASA missions on Earth and beyond.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image Credit: NASA\/Christopher LC Clark<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Hall, left, controls a subscale aircraft as Justin Link holds the aircraft in place during preliminary engine tests on Friday, Sept. 12, 2025, at NASA\u2019s Armstong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Hall, chief pilot at the center\u2019s Dale Reed Subscale Flight Research Laboratory, and Link, a pilot for small uncrewed aircraft systems, are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"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":[15602],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armstrong-flight-research-center"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332846","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332847,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332846\/revisions\/332847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}