Sentences with phrase «simulate aircraft flight»

Much as the Air Force develops computer programs to simulate aircraft flight under different conditions, climate scientists develop computer programs to simulate global climate changes under different conditions.

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NASA engineers demonstrated just that when they used a NASA F / A -18 aircraft recently to simulate a rocket in its early flight phase to test adaptive software for NASA's new rocket the Space Launch System (SLS), the largest, most powerful launch vehicle for deep space missions.

But Velardo hopes to try it out soon aboard a parabolic aircraft flight that simulates the microgravity found in orbit.

Models of aircraft (or actual aircraft) can be mounted in a wind tunnel so that flight conditions can be simulated and engineers can study how well a design will fly.