Vintage Aviation News on MSN

Flight test files: Douglas X-3 Stiletto – Taming the inertia of the needle jet

The Douglas X-3 Stiletto fell short of Mach 2 but revealed roll coupling risks and advanced titanium use in early supersonic ...
Vintage Aviation News on MSN

Flight test files: Northrop X-4 Bantam - navigating the limits of the tailless wing

How the Northrop X-4 Bantam tested semi-tailless flight near Mach 1 and revealed stability limits that shaped future ...
FLYING Magazine

Hermeus Flies Second Supersonic Test Plane in Nine Months

Company aims to achieve supersonic speed with its Quarterhorse Mk 2.1 before advancing to more powerful aircraft.
The Aviationist

U.S. Air Force Tests “Pathfinder” Subscale Model of Blended-Wing Body Jet

JetZero is working on the subscale BWB aircraft demonstrator, named “Pathfinder,” while Northrop Grumman’s Scaled Composites division is fabricating the full-size airplane and has already produced ...
CompositesWorld

Climate Impulse project reaches milestone success with main wing spar testing

Composite wing spar triumphs in ultimate load test, validating composite design and next steps for green hydrogen-powered ...
News4Jax

Freezing the problem of futuristic planes: How scientists are beating ice on aircraft wings

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – You may one day board a plane where the wings will look very different. Future airplanes are ditching traditional wing design for something sleeker—long, thin wings braced with ...
EDN

NASA prepares to test airplane with radical new shape changing wing flaps

The Adaptive Compliant Trailing Edge (ACTE) project at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center has just replaced an airplane’s aluminum flaps with a continuously bendable surface assembly that forms ...