The X-1’s fuselage was designed to resemble a .50 caliber bullet—one of the only shapes known to have stable flight at ...

On October 14, 1947, a small rocket plane sat waiting over the desert at Muroc Army Air Field. Engineers believed it was ...

Over the last 122 years of flight, there certainly hasn’t been a lack of innovation. Engineers, designers, and pilots all […] ...

An important part of data collection for the United States space program, the North American X-15 had astonishing performance ...

A small plane forced to make an emergency landing on I-95 hit a car driven by a Melbourne woman who sustained minor injuries, ...

In August, a WC-135R aircraft, deployed in the United Kingdom, was tracked flying over the Barents Sea, west of Russia's ...

The North American X-15 did more than set records; it quietly redrew the map of what a piloted aircraft could survive at the ...

Sosoliso plane crash survivor, Kechi Okwuchi, has shared her harrowing experience and recounted what she did as the aircraft ...

A blended-wing body aircraft is essentially one giant wing with the cabin built inside. Two California companies are racing ...

The British Airways plane was forced to make an emergency landing, with airport staff evacuating passengers from the aircraft ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin's flight to India became the world's most tracked, with his arrival in New Delhi this ...

The X-59 is designed to transform the sonic boom associated with supersonic flight into a “sonic thump”—making it feasible to fly over populated areas.