On this day in aviation history, February 19, 1957, the Bell X-14 made its first flight. This aircraft, capable of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) and assembled from readily available components ...

American space agency NASA sent a 19-inch scale version of the X-59 experimental aircraft to a Japanese wind tunnel for ...

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NASA plans to conduct community overflights beginning this year, flying the X-59 over select American cities to collect public feedback on the “sonic thump.” ...

NASA was flight testing the new thrust-vectoring concept on the F-15 research aircraft to improve performance and aircraft control. The new concept was designed lead to signifigant increases in ...

The Single-aisle Turboelectric AiRCraft with an Aft Boundary-Layer (STARC-ABL) propulsor harvests a jet airliner's boundary layer to provide more thrust with a 10 percent increase in efficiency.

Later this year, the X-57 Maxwell, a small experimental plane powered solely by electricity, will hopefully take to the skies. The latest in a long line of NASA X-planes, or experimental aircraft ...

Since it already powers the aircraft’s components (but only just, as the most power an engine gives to electricity is 5 percent, in the Boeing 787 Dreamliner), NASA is looking at pulling “more ...

The NASA Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST) ... Its two Williams Research/Rolls FJ44-2 turbofan engines give it a total thrust of 4,600 pounds.

NASA 945, a Shuttle Training Aircraft, is seen on display behind a full-scale space shuttle exhibit at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on Thursday, July 13, 2017. (Image ...