Mysterious chalkings have been reported throughout NASA Langley Research Center. The puzzling messages appeared overnight and urge employees to take bizarre actions, such as smile, dance through crosswalks and skip to work. Safety officials tested the chalk and have confirmed that it presents no problem to employees. Langley spokesperson Marny Skora says management encourages employees to take risks, noting that as one chalking indicates, "Every noble work is at first impossible."...
Topic: Where -- Langley Research Center (LaRC)
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/news/researchernews/chalkings-beautiful.html
McDonnell Douglas Experimental Winglets on DC 10 Up close and in flight.
Topic: Where -- Douglas
Image L93-8701 is available as an electronic file from the photo lab. See URL. -- Photographed on: 08/05/93. -- Model of the Boeing EX concept installed in the NASA Langley 16 foot Transonic Wind Tunnel. The Boeing EX is an advanced surveillance aircraft proposed by Boeing to replace the Grumman E-2C Hawkeye. The concept employs the diamond-shape "joined-wing" planform and active aperture radar arrays in each wing segment to create a more aerodynamically efficient and electronically...
Topic: WIND TUNNEL MODELS -- BOEING AIRCRAFT --
Photographed on 09/07/98. -- High Speed Research (HSR). -- Views of TU-144 LL supersonic transport at Zhukovsky Air Development Center, Zhukovsky, Russia. Views include aircraft and cockpit. Two U.S. test pilots shown: Gordon Fullerton/DFRC, and Robert A. Rivers/LaRC. Photographed at flight line, Tupolev Test Facility @ Zhukasky Air Development Center, Zhukovsky, Russia.
Topics: TU-144 AIRCRAFT -- RESEARCH AIRCRAFT --, Where -- Russia
Impact test of NASCAR test vehicle into energy absorbing composite barrier. Photographed at the Gantry - building 1297.
Topic: Impact Tests
Photographed on: 07/06/98. -- Portraits of Leland D. Melvin, astronaut candidate, in his office. Building 1230, room 284.
Topics: Portrait photographs. -- Employees Photo, Who -- Leland D. Melvin
High Speed Research (HSR). -- Photographed on: 11/04/99. -- Fabrication of patterns, molds, and model components that will be assembled into a semi-span model. Photographed in building 1238B - model shop. L99-2173: Flutter wing's honeycomb core being milled on the okamoto. L99-2174: Wax support removal from pattern for lobe-on-lobe mixer. L99-2175: Flutter wing flap fabrication. L99-2176: 3% blended wing model. L99-2177: 'Home-on-Home' BWM display.
Topic: AIRCRAFT STRUCTURES -- MODELS -- MATERIA
VTOL program. -- Hingeless rotor, XH-51-N, helicopter on runway.
Topic: XH-51 HELICOPTER -- V/STOL AIRCRAFT -- R
Photographed on 10/17/2001. -- Interactive user examination of 3-D flow visualization results on landing gear tested in the BART tunnel, building 1268. Displayed in the Data Visualization and Animation Lab. People in the photgraphs include, L2001-2440: Paul Brewster; L2001-2441: Kurt Severance; L2001-2442: Paul Brewster and Kurt Severence; L2001-2443 and L2001-2444: Tammy Cottee; L2001-2445: Kurt Severance.
Topic: WIND TUNNEL TESTS. -- LANDING GEAR. -- F
Ares 1-X LAS CM Project and Transfer To Kennedy Space Center
Topics: Ares1X :CM:LAS:CAPSULE:NASA:LANGLEY, MOON, HAMPTON, VIRGINIA, What -- Ares Launch Vehicles, What --...
Photographed on 08/11/80. -- B-57 cockpit (Bomber - 57) Instrument panels. Martin Aircraft.
All images are available as electronic files from the photo lab. -- Photographed: 02/10/2003 through 02/14/2003. -- Site photo's from JWRFMP in Sapporo, Japan. Photographed at New Chitose Airport in Sapporo, Japan on 02/10/2003 through 02/14/2003.
Topics: AIRCRAFT LANDING. -- AIRCRAFT SAFETY. --, Where -- Japan
Photographed: Jan-Mar 2000. -- Aircraft, ground vehicles, and runway test conditions. Photographed in North Bay, Ontario and Sawyer Airbase in Gwinn, Michighan.
Topic: AIRCRAFT LANDING. -- AIRCRAFT SAFETY. --
Photographed on 08/11/80. -- B-57 cockpit (Bomber - 57) Instrument panels. Martin Aircraft.
Ares 1-X LAS CM Project and Transfer To Kennedy Space Center
Topics: Ares1X :CM:LAS:CAPSULE:NASA:LANGLEY, MOON, HAMPTON, VIRGINIA, What -- Ares Launch Vehicles, What --...
Images L84-4312, L84-4319 and L84-4323 are available as an electronic file from the photo lab. See URL. -- Image L84-4323 caption: "Deployed into orbit on April 7, 1984 by the Space Shuttle Challenger, Langley's bus sized Long Duration Exposure Facility lived up to its name. Originally intended to stay in space 1 year, it was finally recovered in mid-January 1990 by Space Shuttle Columbia." Image L84-4312 Challenger landing after LDEF deployment. -- Caption and photograph published in...
Topics: SPACE SHUTTLES. -- SPACEBORNE EXPERIMENT, What -- Space Shuttle Orbiter, What -- Challenger
Photographed: Jan-Mar 2000. -- Aircraft, ground vehicles, and runway test conditions. Photographed in North Bay, Ontario and Sawyer Airbase in Gwinn, Michighan.
Topic: AIRCRAFT LANDING. -- AIRCRAFT SAFETY. --
Photographed on: 07/08/2000.
Topic: Employees Photographs. -- PERSONNEL
Mir Environmental Effects Payload (MEEP). Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA). Passive Optical Sample Assembly (POSA). Polished Plate Micrometeoroid and Debris (PPMD). -- Copy negatives made from prints. -- Johnson Space Center Reference Number: STS086-729-021, STS086-729-022, STS086-729-023, STS086-729-024, STS086-729-025, STS086-729-026, STS086-729-027, STS086-729-028, STS086-729-029, STS079-729-030. -- Duplicated on: 05/02/98. -- Astronauts in shuttle bay, stowing MEEP in sidewall carrier....
Topics: MIR SPACE STATION -- POLLUTION MONITORIN, What -- Russian Mir Space Station, Where -- Johnson Space...
America will send a new generation of explorers to the moon aboard NASA's Orion crew exploration vehicle. Making its first flights to the International Space Station early in the next decade, Orion is part of the Constellation Program to send human explorers back to the moon, and then onward to Mars and other destinations in the solar system.
Topics: ORION :CM:LAS:CAPSULE:NASA:LANGLEY, MOON, HAMPTON, VIRGINIA, What -- Moon, What -- Orion, What --...
Take off and landing of ER 2 and C 130, Laser on board C 130 and Learjet, Data acquisition trailer -- LASE
Photographed on 02/07/2001. -- Accident in the 16 Foot Tunnel. Loss of blade and model support. Date of accident: 02/05/2001. Photographed in building 1146, 16 Foot Tunnel.
Topic: WIND TUNNEL MODELS. -- ACCIDENTS. -- WIN
Ares 1-X LAS CM Project and Transfer To Kennedy Space Center
Topics: Ares1X :CM:LAS:CAPSULE:NASA:LANGLEY, CONSTELLATION, MOON, HAMPTON, VIRGINIA, What -- Ares Launch...
Photographed on 01/16/2004. -- Various views of model - vortex generators (VG's) on wing. Photographed in the National Transonic Facility (NTF), building 1236.
Topic: WIND TUNNEL MODELS. -- SCALE MODELS. --
Images L99-323 and L99-348 are available as electronic files from the photo lab. -- Photographed: 01/19/99 through 01/28/99. -- Runway friction tests.
Topics: AIRCRAFT LANDING -- AIRCRAFT SAFETY -- R, Where -- Canada
Airborne Systems Test #2 Vertical
Photographed on 10/01/2004.
Topic: Portrait photographs. -- Employees Photo
Photographed on 06/18/96.
Topic: AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY -- ISLANDS -- TEST FA
Pre and post crash test photographs of a composite fuselage section with two GA aircraft seats and anthropomorphic dummies. Fuselage section was dropped from 15 feet for a 31 ft/s vertical impact velocity onto a rigid surface. Building 1297.
Topic: CRASHWORTHINESS. -- AIRCRAFT STRUCTURES.
Photographed on: 04/25/2002. -- Work shop photographs. Patricia Williams - work shop coordinator. Lectures included Wade Powell - Effective mental attitude and Ken Gosenell - Adjusting to a changing work environment.
Topic: Employees Photographs. -- PERSONNEL
Photographed on: 01/10/97. -- Three panel WFD #3, widespread fatigue damage in 1145 Studio.
Topic: NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTS -- FATIGUE TESTS --
65 degree Cropped Delta Model
Images L98-565, L98-562, and L98-561 are available as an electronic file from the photo lab. -- Photographed on: 01/27/98 to 02/12/98. -- Test aircraft, ground vehicle, runway tests show winter runway braking conditions tests at Northbay, Canada.
Topics: AIRCRAFT LANDING -- AIRCRAFT SAFETY -- R, Where -- Canada
Images L98-565, L98-562, and L98-561 are available as an electronic file from the photo lab. -- Photographed on: 01/27/98 to 02/12/98. -- Test aircraft, ground vehicle, runway tests show winter runway braking conditions tests at Northbay, Canada.
Topics: AIRCRAFT LANDING -- AIRCRAFT SAFETY -- R, Where -- Canada
Returned specimens from MISSE 3 & 4. Photographed 09/07/07 through 10/07/07 in building 1250 - Clean Room.
Photographed on 10/18/79. -- Aircraft model testing at the Landing Loads Track.
Aerials of National Transonic Facility
HL-20 Aerodynamic Data Base Development
Photographed on: 06/27/99. -- Subfloor crushing, overhead view of the airframe with grid. Exterior view of bottom of helicopter, nose gear failures and energy absorbing cannister. Photographed at the Impact Dynamics Research Facility, building 1297. -- Images L99-1403, L99-1409, L99-1415, L99-1435, L99-1440, and L99-1442 are available as electronic files from the photo lab. See URLs.
Topic: AIRCRAFT DESIGN -- IMPACT TESTS -- HELIC
Photographed in: January 1997. -- Photographs from deployment to North Bay, Ontario, Canada - January 1997.
Topics: AIRCRAFT LANDING. -- AIRCRAFT SAFETY. --, Where -- Canada
All images are available as electronic files from the photo lab. -- Photographed: Jan-Feb 2001. -- Test aircraft, ground test vehicles and runway contamintion conditions together with test support personnel. Photographed in Northbay, Canada.
Topics: AIRCRAFT LANDING. -- AIRCRAFT SAFETY. --, Where -- Canada
All images are available as electronic files from the photo lab. -- Photographed: 03/04/2002 to 03/08/2002. -- Vehicle testing at Prague Airport, Prague Czech Republic.
Topics: AIRCRAFT LANDING. -- AIRCRAFT SAFETY. --, Where -- Prague, Where -- Czech Republic
Photographed on 11/08/2004. -- Views of the 2 Foot by 3 Foot Boundary Layer Tunnel after 2004 construction of the facility. Photographed in building 1247H, room 107.
Topic: FACILITIES. -- SCALE MODELS. -- WIND TUN
Software and Tech Brief Awards Reception
Photographed in building 1222 3/4/2008 and 3/6/2008.
Topic: What -- Ares Launch Vehicles
Photographed in building 1297.
Topic: What -- Orion
Orion Airborne Systems Test #4
Topic: What -- Orion
Images L99-323 and L99-348 are available as electronic files from the photo lab. -- Photographed: 01/19/99 through 01/28/99. -- Runway friction tests.
Topics: AIRCRAFT LANDING -- AIRCRAFT SAFETY -- R, Where -- Canada
Photographed on 05/16/2001. -- Mars parachute test hardware in the Transonic Dynamics Tunnel (TDT). Drag test. People in the photographs include: Donald Keller, David Puatak, Robert Scott, and Dr. Ray Mineck. Photographed in building 648, TDT.
Topics: WIND TUNNEL MODELS. -- ROVING VEHICLES., What -- Mars, What -- Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
MISSE 1 & 2 post flight documentation. Photographed Sept through Oct 2005 in building 1250.
Photographed: Jan-Mar 2000. -- Aircraft, ground vehicles, and runway test conditions. Photographed in North Bay, Ontario and Sawyer Airbase in Gwinn, Michighan.
Topic: AIRCRAFT LANDING. -- AIRCRAFT SAFETY. --
All images are available as electronic files from the photo lab. -- Photographed: 01/20/2003 through 01/30/2003. -- Site photo's from JWRFMP in North Bay, Ontario Canada.
Topics: AIRCRAFT LANDING. -- AIRCRAFT SAFETY. --, Where -- Canada
Image L64-7883 is available as an electronic file from the photo lab. See URL. -- Photographed on 08/14/1964. -- Closeup of AD/DB at Ling-Temco-Vought in Dallas.
Topic: SCOUT PROJECT.
Photographed in building building 648; Transonic Dynamics Tunnel
Topic: What -- Ares Launch Vehicles
AHIP 21% Wind Tunnel Model
Crew Exploration Vehicle Dynamic Model in TDT
Ares 1-X LAS CM Project and Transfer To Kennedy Space Center
Topics: Ares1X :CM:LAS:CAPSULE:NASA:LANGLEY, CONSTELLATION, MOON, HAMPTON, VIRGINIA, What -- Ares Launch...
MISSE 1 & 2 post flight documentation. Photographed Sept through Oct 2005 in building 1250
Office Space Leasing team. 8 Foot High Temperature Tunnel. GDE-2 team.
Portrait of Richard J. Churray
Photographed in building 1222 3/4/2008 and 3/6/2008.
Topic: What -- Ares Launch Vehicles
Photographed: 07/01/2001. -- Side and head-on views of the test carriage during several different runs at the Aircraft Landing Dynamics Facility (ALDF), building 1262.
Topic: AIRCRAFT LANDING. -- AIRCRAFT SAFETY. --
Materials International Space Station Experiment (MISSE). -- Passive Experiment Container (PEC). -- Photographed on 06/19/2001. -- Final programing of data loggers in MISSE. Gale Harvey in photographs.
Topics: SPACE STATIONS. -- MATERIALS TESTS. -- V, What -- International Space Station (ISS)
MISSE 5 materials experiment
Returned specimens from MISSE 3 & 4. Photographed 09/07/07 through 10/07/07 in building 1250 - Clean Room.
Ares 1-X LAS CM Project and Transfer To Kennedy Space Center
Topics: Ares1X :CM:LAS:CAPSULE:NASA:LANGLEY, MOON, HAMPTON, VIRGINIA, What -- Ares Launch Vehicles, What --...
Photographed on 08/11/80. -- B-57 cockpit (Bomber - 57) Instrument panels. Martin Aircraft.
