A heavy chorus of bolting and machinery filled the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology, or QueSST, assembly building as engineers, system…
NASA’s all-electric X-57 Maxwell has completed another milestone toward first flight; the successful completion of high-voltage testing. High-voltage testing powers…
The NF-16D Variable In-flight Simulator Aircraft (VISTA) has been redesignated as the X-62A, effective June 14, 2021. The VISTA, which…
Air Force Research Laboratory engineers at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, have prepared the XQ-58A Valkyrie Tail #1 to be transferred…
NASA’s aeronautical innovators are leading a government-industry team to collect data that could make supersonic flight over land possible, dramatically…
NASA’s X-57 ‘Maxwell’ is the agency’s first all-electric experimental aircraft, or X-Plane, and is NASA’s first crewed X-Plane in two…
The Joint Strike Fighter has been described as the largest single defense program in history, with a potential market for…
The Grumman X-29 was an American experimental aircraft that tested a forward-swept wing, canard control surfaces, and other novel aircraft technologies. The X-29 was developed by Grumman, and…
The X-20 Dyna-Soar was designed to provide a piloted maneuverable vehicle for conducting flight research in the hypersonic and flight…
Originally developed as a private venture by Curtiss-Wright, the X-19 was intended to demonstrate the practicality of the tilt-rotor concept….
The Hiller X-18 was an experimental cargo transport aircraft designed to be the first testbed for tiltwing and V/STOL (vertical/short takeoff and landing) technology….
The X-16 was the most blatant misuse of the X-vehicle designation system — it was simply an attempt to hide…
In the joint X-15 hypersonic research program that NASA conducted with the Air Force, the Navy, and North American Aviation,…
