With winter approaching, NASA is providing pilots with a way to help them avoid the hazards of ice contamination while their planes are on the ground. NASA developed “A Pilot’s Guide to Ground Icing.” ...

CLEVELAND — As millions of people are getting ready to take off for spring break, safety is always top of mind. So when you board a plane, think about this: Air travel is a precise calculation of ...

About once a month on average, an incident is reported in which turbofan jet engines flying at high-altitude lose power. The problem includes power loss, flameout, and even damage to the compressor ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- NASA Glenn Research Center will spend $16.6 million to upgrade key cooling equipment at its icing research tunnel, one of the largest of its kind in the world. The test site is one ...

NASA's DC-8 Airborne Laboratory has been seen recently off the NC coast, hunting microscopic ice that can build up in aircraft engines causing failures. An eagle-eyed viewer spotted a NASA plane off ...

A free, online course from NASA, "A Pilot's Guide to Ground Icing," has been updated for all pilots. The presentation allows users to access information relevant to their particular operations. The ...

A jet's forward motion and its engines' mighty air intake draw ice crystals deep inside. At some point, probably in the compressor section, the temperature is above freezing and some of the crystals ...

One online resource is NASA's new Pilot's Guide to Ground Icing, a training course developed at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. It's a free course intended for pilots who make their own ...

In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, Jack Cotter inspects a Commuter Transport Engine undergoing testing in the Icing Research Tunnel while Ray Soto looks on from the observation ...