X-15 – The 4000 MPH Supersonic Rocket Aircraft Designed And Built By North America For NACA Testing (Hereinafter NASA)
X-15 is a hypersonic rocket aircraft designed and built by North American for NACA (later NASA) testing. It set speed records in the 1960s that remain…
Airspeeder prepares for crewed eVTOL racing with Mk4 design reveal
Following more than 350 test flights and two demonstration races of its remotely piloted Airspeeder Mk3 eVTOL, Alauda Aeronautics has revealed the design for the first crewed racer…
The Stealthy Blackhawk Is An American Top Secret Stealth Ghost Helicopter Emerged
A couple of years ago a top secret US helicopter emerged. It is commonly referred as Stealthy Blackhawk or Silent Hawk, however these are not its original names….
Martin XB-51, An Aircraft That Has Gone Down In History And Is Remembered Only By The Most Esoteric Aviation History Fans
The Enigmatic XB-51 Was Ahead of Its Time, and That May Have Ended its Program. It’s unusual for an airplane to almost completely disappear from history….
Aгgon GTL 915 iS could be the gyгoplane you didn’t know you wanted
Although gyroplanes (aka gyrocopters) were once bare-bones open-cockpit contraptions, we’re seeing an increasing number of more deluxe, fully enclosed, higher-performance models. The Argon GTL 915 iS is one…
How The Yugoslavians Shot Down The Indestructible F-117 Nighthawk – America’s First Stealth Fighter
Only one US F-117 Nighthawk has been lost in combat, and this took place during the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, in the Kosovo War.via Lockheed Martin The…
Iran To Convert Its ‘F-35 Replica’ Fifth-Gen Stealth Fighter Jet ‘Qaher-313’ Into A Pilotless Aircraft
Over a decade ago, Iran claimed rolling out its “fifth-generation” Qaher-313 stealth fighter jet, projected as the country’s most advanced warplane. An Iranian defense ministry now says the…
Impressive Specifications Of The F-16 Fighting Falcon, A US Fighter Jet Developed By General Dynamics
Specifications of the F-16 Fighting Falcon, a US Fighter Jet Developed By General Dynamics The United States (US) Fighter Jet is indeed known as one of the best….
NASA’s Supersonic Surfboard – X-43A Aircraft – Streaked Into History Travels At Nearly Mach 10, About 6,500 Mph
Meet NASA’s X-43, which was developed as part of the Hyper-X program in the late 1990s. As part of the “better, faster, cheaper” efforts developed by the space agency, Hyper-X…
Toroidal propellers: A noise-killing game changer in air and water
These strangely-shaped twisted-toroid propellers look like a revolutionary (sorry) advance for the aviation and marine sectors. Radically quieter than traditional propellers in both air and water, they’re also…
Full-scale modular eVTOL prototype shows off swappable pods and ground robot
Detroit’s Airspace Experience Technologies has presented a full-scale prototype of its modular eVTOL aircraft platform, Sigma-6, an innovative airframe featuring swappable cargo and passenger pods and a functional…
New Airplanes, from Business Jets to Experimentals
Here’s a rundown of some of the latest aircraft offerings, from business jets to kitplanes. Bombardier Global 8000 In May, at the National Business Aviation Association’s European Business…