Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences has begun installing the wings on the X-65, an ...

US industry is pushing for government funding of more X-vehicle experimental programmes in a drive to maintain its technological edge in aerospace From the X-1 to the X-50, over a span of 56 years, ...

Aurora Flight Sciences and DARPA hope to see the X-65 drone fly next year after suffering delays and cost growth.

The R&D zone within an aircraft factory is often shrouded in mystery, bearing top secret fruit. But some of the most innovative technologies to streak through the skies have sprung from collaborations ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is channeling tens of millions of dollars into Aurora Flight Sciences for two experimental aircraft programs that together could redefine how the U.S.

There's a new X-plane in town. Bell Textron's tilt-rotor aircraft being built for DARPA's Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) program, which aims to combine the features of a helicopter ...

Aviation, as humanity has been experiencing for the past 120 years or so, means an aircraft needs engines to take off and fly, wings to keep it in the air, and physical control surfaces (stabilizers, ...

After the U.S. Air Force selected the F-47, DARPA disclosed that Boeing and Lockheed Martin each built a demonstrator aircraft for NGAD, which first flew in 2019 and 2022. In another bit of ...

Aviation Week editors discuss the state of X-planes, how they have historically performed and what challenge the next X-plane program should take on. Don't miss a single episode of the award-winning ...

Planes that fly faster than the speed of sound create thunderous supersonic booms. But with NASA's X-59 plane, that could change. The space agency plans for the aircraft's first flight in 2025, an ...

The American space agency plans to have a supersonic aircraft called X-59 in the air sometime this year, with a major goal in mind. It's a momentous occasion for aviation, as the research aircraft may ...

The United States banned supersonic flights over its land in 1973 due to their ear-splitting sonic booms. Experts are building a plane that should travel at those speeds but create only gentle thumps ...