NASA Tests Technology Offering Potential Fuel Savings for Commercial Aviation
21 Jan 2026, 18:32 GMT
By Dede Dinius
Topic: Armstrong Flight Research Center
Source URL: https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/armstrong/nasa-tests-technology-offering-potential-fuel-savings-for-commercial-aviation/
NASA researchers successfully completed a high-speed taxi test of a scale model of a design that could make future aircraft more efficient by improving how air flows across a wing’s surface, saving fuel and money. On Jan. 12, the Crossflow Attenuated Natural Laminar Flow (CATNLF) test article reached speeds of approximately 144 mph, marking its