MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—From a viewing spot in a high bay room at NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, I peer through a glass window at a cab that simulates the cockpit of a commercial aircraft.

Four passengers participate in a simulation of an air taxi ride at NASA’s Vertical Motion Simulator, or VMS. Located at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, the VMS allows NASA ...

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. (Nov. 8, 2021) – Army pilots joined vertical lift experts from the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation & Missile Center, Program Executive Office for ...

PBS NewsHour correspondent Miles O’Brien had the opportunity to see what it would feel like to fly in an air taxi above San Francisco. The journalist took a trip in NASA’s vertical motion simulator ...

I experienced Tuesday what it will be like to ride in Boeing's 787 Dreamliner in moderate to severe turbulence. And I didn't throw up. Not a ride in the real plane, of course. The first 787 has just ...

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. News media are invited Aug. 20, 2010 to help celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Vertical Motion Simulator, or ( VMS), a facility NASA uses to mimic a variety of aircraft and ...