Credit: NASA Langley Research Center (NASA-LaRC) This old NASA film explains what tire hydroplaning is and why it occurs. This clip shows ‘Spindown’ of a tire on an aircraft landing gear, from a test facility at Langley.
Commercial pilots come to NASA Langley Research Center’s Research Flight Deck simulator to test out how ‘NextGen’ cockpit technologies being developed to improve safety and efficiency may impact flight crew roles and responsibilities.
This crash test of a small, lightweight helicopter at Langley Research Center was a smashing success, literally — just as NASA engineers had predicted.