In the early 1950s, the U.S. Navy needed a carrier-based aircraft that could take off without the help of a catapult. What came out of that order was an Air Force plane with a propeller that spun ...

Simple Flying provides a round-up of some of US military aviation's most notable experimental aircraft. These X-planes have forever changed flying! The Bell X-1 left an indelible mark on both the ...

XS, Japan's experimental flying boat that pioneered postwar flying boat technology. Now preserved at the Gifu-Kakamigahara Air and Space Museum.

The X-47B experimental aircraft took off from Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland before approaching the USS George H.W. Bush, which is operating off the coast of Virginia.

Navy catapults experimental bat-winged drone into flight [Video] ... On Monday, an X-47B was hoisted aboard the Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier at Naval Air Station, Norfolk, ...

The U.S. Navy should convert USS Nimitz, the fleet’s oldest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, into a test ship once the flattop decommissions in the mid-2020s.

Scientist, aviators and military strategists have worked on creating useful jet aircraft since the 1930s, but it was the Cold War that saw the greatest number of jet experiments.

MILITARY Experimental Aircraft to Go From Zero to 13,000 in Hypersonic Test Launch. By Fox News. Published August 10, 2011 11:48am EDT | Updated October 21, 2015 10:51pm EDT. Facebook ...

When the British experimental jet fighter touched down on the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Ocean nearly eight decades ago, it wasn't just a historic landing — it was a giant leap in naval ...

The X-47B experimental aircraft took off from Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland before approaching the USS George H.W. Bush, which was operating about 70 miles off the coast of Virginia.

Launched in the late '90s, the French Air Force launched an experimental program designed to craft the first unmanned UAV and UCAV aircraft in Europe.