The grainy photos show a tailless shape with canards slipping through the Nevada night, and the internet reached for aliens.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's X-59 achieved a major milestone on Friday, when it flew faster than the speed of sound for the first time. According to ...

The aircraft functions as a testbed whose technologies may eventually be integrated into combat-ready interceptor drones.

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 ...

Experimental amateur-built (E-AB) aircraft experience a disproportionately higher accident and fatal accident rate compared to non-E-AB aircraft, primarily due to powerplant failures and loss of ...

Just days after NASA’s experimental X-59 plane flew at supersonic speeds for the first time, the space agency has announced ...

A remotely operated experimental plane broke apart during a test flight Thursday and crashed into the Pacific Ocean, NASA officials said. The solar-powered Helios was destroyed but there are no ...

The world of experimental aircraft has always been a fascinating one. These things don't come along very often, and when they do, and because they are meant from the get-go to test new flight ...

The FAA has implemented an immediate policy change allowing experienced pilots to operate multiple experimental aircraft with significantly less documentation and procedures. Pilots holding three ...

We generally tend to think about aircraft in a binary way, at least when it comes to how they are operated: you either have piloted aircraft, or uncrewed ones, and that's about it. But there is ...

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