{"id":199179,"date":"2025-12-18T23:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/199179\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T23:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:35:10","slug":"nasa-lab-completes-engine-checks-on-new-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/199179\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Lab Completes Engine Checks on New Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Hall, left, controls a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-article\/nasa-lab-builds-new-aircraft-to-support-complex-flight-research\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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>Image Credit: NASA\/Christopher LC Clark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Hall, left, controls a subscale aircraft as Justin Link holds the aircraft in place during preliminary engine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[15270,61,60,82,247],"class_list":["post-199179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-armstrong-flight-research-center","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}