The Shinden – a tailless aircraft ... of the jet’s designers. The X-29, however, was built. Two Grumman X-29s were built. NASA and the USAF jointly flew the experimental forward-swept wing ...

Throughout the 1950s, aircraft designers around the world began developing a unique aircraft configuration, called a tail-sitter. Unlike conventional airplanes, tail sitting planes rested on their ...

NASA unveiled the X-59, an experimental supersonic aircraft designed to produce a quieter sonic boom. The explosive noise happens when an aircraft travels faster than the speed of sound.

The Sea Vampire made history as the first jet-powered aircraft to land on a carrier in 1945. The UK and US navies developed fighter jets to operate aboard aircraft carriers after World War II.

The U.S. has announced that the new generation of fighter jets will be built on American soil. Take a look at which major ...

“This jet really does have a lot of the enabling ... at a future joint flight with both the XB-1 and NASA’s X-59 experimental aircraft. The X-59 is designed to minimise the shock wave that ...

One of America’s leading aircraft designers ... But there’s no evidence this experimental jet, still strangely intriguing after all these years, ever got off the ground.

Boom Supersonic passed a major milestone last month when its XB-1 prototype became the first civil aircraft to break ... once again surpassed Mach 1 in the experimental plane while flying as ...

British Airways owner IAG on Friday unveiled plans to buy 71 long-haul aircraft from Airbus and Boeing , sharing a major fleet expansion across the Atlantic a day after Britain and the U.S. announced ...

An experimental civilian aircraft crashed at Joint Base Langley ... The installation is home to squadrons of F-22 Raptor fighter jets. One of them shot down a Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic ...

The UK and US navies developed fighter jets to operate aboard aircraft carriers after World War II. The de Havilland Vampire was adapted for naval use, becoming the aptly named Sea Vampire. When the ...