Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
GE Aerospace and NASA recently partnered on flight tests to help further the aviation industry’s understanding of contrails, using new test methods and technologies. During tests, NASA Langley Research Center’s G-III aircraft followed GE Aerospace’s Flying Test Bed in the sky and scanned the aircraft wake with Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology. This will advance the use of LiDAR by NASA to generate three-dimensional imaging of contrails to better characterize how contrails form and how they behave over time.
For GE Aerospace, it represented new operating methods for its 747 Flying Test Bed, expanding capabilities ahead of flight tests planned this decade to evaluate performance of new commercial engine technologies being developed through CFM International’s Revolutionary Innovation for Sustainable Engines (RISE) program. CFM is a 50-50 joint company between GE Aerospace and Safran Aircraft Engines.
Read the news release here: geaerospace.com/news/press-releases/ge-aerospace-and-nasa-partnering-flight-tests-accelerate-industrys-understanding
Learn more about the RISE program here: cfmaeroengines.com/rise
GE Aerospace and NASA recently partnered on flight tests to help further the aviation industry’s understanding of contrails, using new test methods and technologies. During tests, NASA Langley Research Center’s G-III aircraft followed GE Aerospace’s Flying Test Bed in the sky and scanned the aircraft wake with Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology. This will advance the use of LiDAR by NASA to generate three-dimensional imaging of contrails to better characterize how contrails form and how they behave over time.
For GE Aerospace, it represented new operating methods for its 747 Flying Test Bed, expanding capabilities ahead of flight tests planned this decade to evaluate performance of new commercial engine technologies being developed through CFM International’s Revolutionary Innovation for Sustainable Engines (RISE) program. CFM is a 50-50 joint company between GE Aerospace and Safran Aircraft Engines.
Read the news release here: geaerospace.com/news/press-releases/ge-aerospace-and-nasa-partnering-flight-tests-accelerate-industrys-understanding
Learn more about the RISE program here: cfmaeroengines.com/rise
