Flying

Weather Wonders of X-Plane 12

The author, previously focused on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 (MSFS2020) and a long-time X-Plane 11 user, initially found X-Plane 12 frustrating due to graphical glitches, performance issues, and ...
Mashable

NASA reveals its X-plane. It will fly over the U.S. at extreme speeds.

The first reveal of NASA's X-59 supersonic plane onstage at the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California. Credit: NASA / YouTube Over a half-century ago, the U.S. banned commercial ...
Mashable

NASA's about to fly its powerful X-plane. It could make history.

Planes that fly faster than the speed of sound create thunderous supersonic booms. But with NASA's X-59 plane, that could change. The space agency plans for the aircraft's first flight in 2025, an ...
Newsweek

The High-Speed X-Plane That Could Revolutionize Warfare

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Boeing and its research subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences have unveiled ...
autoevolution

DARPA X-Plane That Uses Jets of Air to Maneuver Slowly Crawling to First Flight in 2027

Aviation, as humanity has been experiencing for the past 120 years or so, means an aircraft needs engines to take off and fly, wings to keep it in the air, and physical control surfaces (stabilizers, ...
Aviation Week

X-Plane Surge Fueled By DARPA Strategy Revamp

The scaled-down, cheaper approach used to develop the Aurora Flight Sciences X-65 is typical of a new DARPA management strategy focused on getting new X-planes into flight test. Credit: Aurora Flight ...
Robb Report

This Bonkers High-Speed X-Plane Combines a Jet’s Speed With an VTOL’s Agility

The new concept is being developed for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) program. The main aim of SPRINT is to create an X-plane that ...
New Atlas

Meet DARPA's X-76: The rotorcraft that flies like a jet

There's a new X-plane in town. Bell Textron's tilt-rotor aircraft being built for DARPA's Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) program, which aims to combine the features of a helicopter ...
New Atlas

X-59 supersonic X-plane gets rolled out by NASA and Lockheed Martin

With the usual ballyhoo, NASA and Lockheed Martin have rolled out the X-59 supersonic aircraft today. In a ceremony at the famous Skunk Works in Palmdale, California, the experimental plane was ...
The National Interest

X-31: The X-Plane That Should Not Be Forgotten

Summary and Key Points: The X-31 Enhanced Fighter Maneuverability Demonstrator, developed in the 1990s by Rockwell-Messerschmidt-Böklow-Blohm, was a groundbreaking aircraft designed to explore ...
Forbes

DARPA’s SPRINT X-Plane Designs Range from Familiar to Foreign

An artist's illustration of Bell's basic High Speed Vertical Landing and Takeoff configuration which the company has posited could fly as a family of different sized vehicles. DARPA has selected four ...