However, a plane crash is typically a much more violent, inhospitable environment than the average car accident. Incidentally, a shocking NASA archive ... small twin-engine chase aircraft.

NASA will send the X-59 up with an F-15 fighter jet that will act as a chase plane, measuring the shockwaves being produced by the aircraft midflight. And perhaps most impressive of all ...

A WB-57 jet plane, with a stock image of a ... which can travel at up to 460 mph, NASA said in the statement, allowing them to chase the path of the eclipse's totality. "By extending the duration ...

After the tests concluded, NASA found that none of the tech deployed ... and the X-59 is a bird that will fly accompanied by a chase plane. This machine, an F-15 specially modified and properly ...

“Everything about the plane is kind of hard to do,” he ... commands radioed from an ER-2 mobile pilot driving a NASA Dodge Charger chase vehicle, December 14, 2010. The aircraft and its ...

A former NASA commander has revealed that while piloting his private plane in Texas last summer he nearly had a collision with two mysterious “metallic, spherical orbs.” Astronaut Leroy Chiao ...

But a few lucky Nasa flight crews will get a much closer ... Inside the nose of the plane, a camera and telescope system driven by Casey will be used to take images of the Sun in infrared and ...

“I call it the circus, everything about the plane is unique.” [Related: The spy agency origins of NASA’s next powerful ... a fellow U-2 or ER-2 pilot in a chase car pursues the jet down ...

NASA isn't just considering a futuristic plane on Mars. It's developing the future of your commercial planes, too. The space agency's Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project — intended to slash ...