Discovery took off atop NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, a modified Boeing 747, leaving the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 6:58 a.m. ET, just after dawn, for Washington. The ferry flight was ...

The NASA aircraft used for the CODEX flight program has a Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensor onboard. This allows the aircraft to trail behind the 747 and scan the contrails. The pilots of ...

NASA's Gulfstream G-III will use lidar technology to scan contrails of GE's Boeing 747 An inflight engine failure suffered by a cargo 747-400 involved a smaller version of the PW4000 that failed ...