A purported sighting over Area 51 has features that would fit with what we think we know about the F-47, but many questions ...

During the 2010s, the Northrop Grumman X-47B quietly achieved something many believed was still decades away. Designed as a ...

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Remotely piloted aircraft are flying in and around airports to help the FAA develop certification standards for large uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS). The data collection flights in and around the ...

The Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) project is a joint DARPA/US Special Operations Command to build a high speed plane capable of take off and flight without the need of a runway.

Just a few days after it announced it was getting ready to conduct the second test flight of the X-59, the American space agency NASA cleared the experimental aircraft to take off in its most ...

The X-59 is designed to travel faster than the speed of sound without creating a loud sonic boom. The ultimate goal is to prove that quiet supersonic flight is a viable option for commercial airlines.

The next phase of Bell’s X-planes is on the horizon. The aviation company has just completed the Critical Design Review for the U.S.’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), underneath its ...

DARPA has assigned the designation X-76 to the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) project, a Bell proof-of-concept technology demonstrator for a high-speed tiltrotor. DARPA (Defense ...

The wardrobe of emoji clothes is severely lacking. There are eight pairs of shoes, two shirts, two pairs of pants, four bags, three sunglasses, two hats, and one coat. I admire a minimalist closet and ...

Dominion Energy’s Chesterfield County natural gas plant is back on track, following the Virginia State Corporation Commission‘s dismissal last week of a petition by opponents of the project. In ...

Summary and Key Points: The A-12 Avenger II was designed to be the U.S. Navy’s ultimate carrier-launched stealth bomber, replacing the A-6 Intruder with a platform capable of penetrating deep into ...