NASA's "bug team" tested eight different coatings on an HU-25C Falcon jet to reduce bug accumulation on aircraft wings. The primary goal is to improve aerodynamic and economic efficiency by minimizing ...
SHREVEPORT, LA – NASA researchers, working with Boeing’s ecoDemonstrator Program, plan to be in Shreveport, Louisiana, April 27 to May 15, to test non-stick wing coatings designed to minimize insect r ...
NASA scientists are developing a software ‘checker program’ to find ‘bugs’ in spacecraft computer code more quickly and accurately to improve space mission safety. Ever since a moth crawled into an ...
The next frontier of aircraft design is taming bug splats. NASA scientists are patenting substances that act like non-stick cookware, blocking dead insects from adhering to surfaces so air flows more ...