NASA X: Setting the Standards for Unmanned Aircraft

NASA X: Setting the Standards for Unmanned Aircraft title card.

Documentary (2020)

Starring:
Jennifer Pulley (Host)
Dr. Edgar Waggoner
Mauricio Rivas
Kurt Shalkhauser

NASA’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration in the National Airspace System, or UAS-NAS project, will sunset at the end of 2020 after nearly a decade of effort across several NASA centers. The project identified, developed and tested technologies and procedures to reduce technical barriers associated with unmanned aircraft having routine access to airspace occupied by human-piloted aircraft.

Also from this series:
NASA X series

Unidentified Fokker Aircraft

US Navy Fokker RA-4 ? (Fokker F.Xa, a slighter wider F.VIIa/3m for the US armies) ?

Vought O3U-1

Boeing B-29-96-BW Superfortress & Bell X-1 & Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star

The Bell X-1 is just released from the mothership with the Lockheed P-80 chasing the test flight.

General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper

Registration N870NA, c/n 04870. Same aircraft in other works at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).

Reg. N870NA General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper Ikhana of NASA.

Reg. N870NA General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper Ikhana of NASA.

Reg. N870NA General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper Ikhana of NASA.

Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket & North American F-86 Sabre & Boeing P2B-1 Superfortress

(front to rear) Douglas Aircraft D-558-2 Skyrocket; to its left and right are North American F-86 Sabre chase aircraft. US Navy Boeing P2B-1 Superfortress in front of the NACA hangar, Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, California (actually at the High Speed Flight Station, 1952).

North American P-86A-1-NA Sabre (F-86A in 1948)

One of the very first Sabre built (the fifth) : FU-609 (c/n 151-38436) bailed to North American for tests. Assigned to NACA Ames Aeronautical Laboratory (logo painted on the fin), NAS Moffett Field, CA from April 1950 to March 1956. Registered as NACA 135. Used for flying qualities, stability and control, and performance evaluations.

NASA AD-1 (Burt Rutan Model 35)

Concept Aircraft based on the NASA X-43

RAeS RS-002 (Concept Aircraft)

Bell Nexus

Northrop Grumman YRQ-4A Global Hawk

The two Global Hawks acquired by NASA in 2007. Registration N871NA, s/n 95-2001 and registration N872NA, s/n 00-2006.

Northrop Grumman YRQ-4A Global Hawk of NASA

Lockheed S-3B Viking

Registration N601NA, c/n 3187.

NASC TigerShark XP

Registration N1750X (written as N175OX), c/n XP2, built in 2017.

Kitty Hawk Cora

Volocopter 2X

Diamond DA42 M-NG/MPP-NG Twin Star

Registration N51AU, c/n 42.MN004, built in 2009.
Same shot seen in NASA X: Urban Air Mobility.

Unidentified Uber Air Concept Aircraft

Airbus A³ Vahana Alpha One prototype

De Havilland Canada DHC-6-100 Twin Otter

Registration N607NA, c/n 4, built in 1966.

Reg. N607NA De Havilland Canada DHC-6-100 Twin Otter of NASA.

Unidentified Gulfstream

Member of the Gulfstream family of business jets, though its difficult to tell the exact type with this low-detail model.

McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 FAST

NASA Dryden's F/A-18 #853 dubbed the Full-scale Advanced Systems Testbed (FAST) for Aircraft and Integrated Resilient Aircraft Controls Project.

Unidentified Drone

Bell 429 GlobalRanger

Registration N917PD, c/n 57148, built in 2013.

Various Aircraft

Lilium Jet

Mislabelled as Lithium.

NASC TigerShark XP

Langley Aerodrome No. 8 (LA-8) & Fokker F28-1000 Fellowship

In the background, fictitious registration C-RASH on this former Canadian Regional Airlines F28. Its actual last registration was C-GCRN, c/n 11051 built in 1972. After retirement from airline service, it was used by NASA in a crash test at Langley Research Facility in 2019. More info and photos here.

Kitty Hawk Cora

Unidentified Aircraft

Same shot seen in NASA X: Future Forward - Environmentally Responsible Aviation.

Boeing 777-312(ER)

Registration 9V-SWD, c/n 34569/600, built in 2006.

Reg. 9V-SWD Boeing 777-312(ER) of Singapore Airlines.

Bombardier CRJ-900LR (CL-600-2D24)

Registration N600NN, c/n 15416, built in 2016.
Same shot seen in NASA X: Airspace Technology Demonstration.

Reg. N600NN Bombardier CRJ-900LR (CL-600-2D24) of American Eagle.

Northrop Grumman X-47B

Designated 502.

Fictional Aircraft

Boeing 777-223(ER), Embraer E170 and Airbus A340-313

Reg. N752AN Boeing 777-223(ER) of American Airlines behind a Embraer E170 of LOT Polish Airlines.
Reg. B-18807 Airbus A340-313 of China Airlines (c/n 541, built in 2003) is taxiing, passing from left to right in the foreground.
Same shot seen in NASA X: Airspace Technology Demonstration.

Volocopter 2X

Reg. A6-RTA.

Metro Hop Passenger Plane Concept Aircraft

Learjet 25

Registration N616NA, c/n 035.
Same shot seen in NASA X: Unmanned Aircraft Systems - Transforming the Horizon but different brightness/contrast.

Boeing 787

Boeing 787 due to wingtip.

Zee Aero Mule SPA / Kitty Hawk Cora

Registration N301XZ, c/n 001.

Unidentified Aircraft

Same shot seen in NASA X: Urban Air Mobility.

General Atomics MQ-9B Guardian

Registration N190TC, c/n YBC01, built in 2016.

Beechcraft T-34C Turbo Mentor

Registration N865NA, c/n 160266.

Bell Nexus

Bell APT70

Bell APT (Autonomous Pod Transport) 70, registration N314AN, c/n 005, built in 2019.

Diamond DA42 Twin Star

Registration N49AU, c/n 42.008, built in 2005.

Unidentified Uber Air Concept Aircraft

Lockheed S-3B Viking

CGI.

Beechcraft T-34C Turbo Mentor

Registration N608NA, c/n 160528.

Opener BlackFly

Boeing/Aurora Flight Sciences Pegasus

Registration N83AU, s/n AU-083, built in 2018.

Concept Aircraft

CGI video footage name "Passenger Drone landing on the top of a building", created by iLexx.

NASA Albatross PAV

Amazon Logistics MK27

Reg. N311PA, c/n 000313, built in 2019.

Unidentified Uber Air Concept Aircraft

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See also

• NASA X: Setting the Standards for Unmanned Aircraft at NASA.gov (Notice that the MP4 video file in the NASA.gov website is not really complete, missing some minutes at the end and the ending credits. The complete video (with ending credits) is in YouTube and elsewhere.)
• NASA X TV Series at Wikipedia
• NASA X TV Series at IMDb