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The Plane that Almost Melted: The Fastest Flight Ever Mach 6.7
On October 3rd, 1967, at a millisecond before 14:32 local time, Air Force Major William J. "Pete" Knight hit the button. His North American X-15, one of the most experimental aircraft ever built, lit ...
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Did DARPA Choose the Wrong VTOL Demonstrator for Its “SPRINT” Project?
The advances of Aurora’s demonstrator ensure that the company’s fan-in-wing VTOL experiments will extend well beyond DARPA’s SPRINT.
After the U.S. Air Force selected the F-47, DARPA disclosed that Boeing and Lockheed Martin each built a demonstrator aircraft for NGAD, which first flew in 2019 and 2022. In another bit of ...
Wind tunnel tests focused on low-speed handling of Aurora fan-in-wing blended wing body VTOL configuration. Credit: Aurora Flight Sciences Aurora Flight Sciences has completed low-speed wind tunnel ...
Not long is left now until American space agency NASA sends a brand-new research aircraft called X-59 into the sky. Part of the Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) program, it's a piece of equipment ...
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