What looks like a flying egg, was never designed to land, and was so light it could be thrown off course by its own guns?
NASA’s Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base advanced work across aeronautics, Earth science, exploration ...
A T-7A Red Hawk from the 416th Flight Test Squadron and P-51D Mustang from the Palm Springs Air and Space Museum fly in ...
Eighty-five years ago, the Avro Lancaster prototype made its first flight, marking the beginning of one of the RAF's most ...
The US Air Force (USAF) plans to install a new tactical radar and sensors on the specially modified Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter used for testing pilotless air combat. Known as the X-62 Variable ...
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Air Force $2B Starts B-52 Engine Swap Toward B-52J

Keeping a 1960s airframe relevant in the 2050s has less to do with nostalgia than with wiring diagrams, test cards, and the unglamorous reality that engines wear out. That is the context for the U.S.
A fighter so tiny it was carried inside a bomber’s belly, the XF-85 Goblin failed to live up to its ambitious design.
The Navy and Boeing have pushed back the initial flight test of the first MQ-25A Stingray aircraft carrier-based tanker aircraft into early 2026. The government-industry team insisted they are making ...
The US Air Force (USAF) has awarded Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace a $240 million contract for Lot 2 production of its air-launched Joint Strike Missile (JSM). “This contract provides for the purchase ...
China fired rockets toward Taiwan on Tuesday and deployed new amphibious assault ships alongside bomber aircraft and warships ...
Fifty-two-year-old Ms Lindsay, best known for playing the Rovers Return landlady Shelley Unwin on the ITV soap set in Greater ...
The Boeing 747-400 was the definitive, best-selling variant of Boeing's iconic double-decker, jumbo jet. On the other hand, ...