The U.S. military maintains hundreds of locations both domestically and abroad (as of July 2024, there were at least 128 ...

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Aurora Flight Sciences has completed low-speed wind tunnel tests of the blended wing body X-plane that the Boeing company is developing for a DARPA program to demonstrate a high-speed, vertical ...

NASA awarded the aerospace company Lockheed Martin, which also makes U.S. fighter jets, a $247.5 million contract to build the X-59 craft, and as the images below show, the plane is in its final ...

Rendering showing various X-plane concepts being designed as part of DARPA’s SPRINT program. The presence of a C-130-sized plane in the rendering is also interesting.

In a memo to employees, Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg said the company was in a difficult position and taking steps toward ...

Northrop Grumman has released a photo of the Series Hybrid Electric Propulsion AiRcraft Demonstration (SHEPARD) XRQ-73 stealth drone X-plane that it has built for DARPA and is expected to fly by ...

It would be the 73rd official X-plane developed by the Department of Defense—a long line of famed aircraft that started in 1946, with the Bell X-1 supersonic jet plane. Related Story.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has revealed the official designation of a next-generation X-plane it currently has under development. The aircraft, now officially dubbed the XRQ ...

AeroVironment’s Wildcat has been selected for the DARPA X-Plane programme. Image courtesy of AeroVironment. AeroVironment has been chosen by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to ...

The SPRINT effort, which is jointly run by DARPA and US Special Operations Command, envisions an X-plane that can vertically take off and land, fly at speeds from 400 to 450 knots and “hover in ...

The X-plane features a sleek composite exterior and a low-drag, blended-wing body. Aurora said three lift fans have been incorporated into the wings to enable vertical flight.