San Francisco Bay Area Chapter and NASA Ames Host Eastside Academy Senior

摘要

On Feb. 10, the VFS San Francisco Bay Area Chapter and the Rotorcraft Aeromechanics Branch at NASA Ames Research Center had the pleasure of hosting a senior from Eastside College Preparatory School. The student had the opportunity to speak to several engineers in various stages of their careers and learn about on-going projects in the branch focusing on urban air mobility (UAM) and Mars rotorcraft research. The student spoke to engineers about the controls requirements, passenger acceptability and testing performed in the support of the UAM community at Ames, and visited the RAPTOR wind tunnel and Vertical Motion Simulator. (RAPTOR is a relocatable tunnel that will be set up in the NASA Ames Planetary Aeolian Laboratory to test flight conditions at reduced atmospheric pressures.)