First flight for future fighter
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The world's most expensive military project, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, is due to take to the skies next week.
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The specialist in small unmanned aircraft systems takes off during its first fiscal quarter of 2008.
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LOS ANGELES -- The future of hypersonic flight is uncertain, but next week a tiny unmanned NASA jet will try to hurtle into that unknown on a one-way trip at 10 times the speed of sound.
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The private New Mexico launchpad will launch its first - unmanned - craft Sept. 25, but that's just the beginning.
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The US space agency NASA plans to launch an experimental aircraft Monday that it hopes will set a new world record for air speed. If weather permits, an unpiloted wedge-shaped X-43 aircraft
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An Airbus A380 super-jumbo takes off from southern France on its first test flight with passengers.
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The ultimate flight-to-safety investment.
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By Ja'Rena Lunsford, The Daily Oklahoman  Feb. 17--Rocketplane Kistler is one step closer to launching a demonstration flight to the International Space Station.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA is finally ready to fly its first mission of the year, with the space shuttle Atlantis and seven astronauts scheduled for liftoff on Friday evening from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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NASA&#39;s unmanned X-43A plane is the latest product of its research program into flight at more than five times the speed of sound.
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Russia&#39;s new medium launch vehicle Soyuz M-2 will make its maiden flight on Friday from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov announced on Monday.
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The biggest airliner ever built completed its first commercial flight Thursday when the Singapore Airlines-owned Airbus A380 superjumbo landed in Sydney.
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[World News] London, Sep 27 : British billionaire Richard Branson Monday announced his company Virgin Atlantic airlines would launch the world&#39;s first commercial space flight in the near future, Xinhua reports.
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A small, air-breathing test plane will attempt to blaze into history on Monday by flying at nearly 10 times the speed of sound. The hypersonic craft is one of three built by NASA for its $230-million Hyper-X project, established in 1996.
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The Pentagon's costliest acquisition project, the F-35 Lightning 2 Joint Strike Fighter, safely completed its first test flight Friday, advancing a $276.5 billion program co-financed by the United States and eight nations.
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NON-STOP flights between Britain and Australia were made possible yesterday with the launch of the world - s newest passenger aircraft.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA is finally ready to fly its first mission of the year, with space shuttle Atlantis and seven astronauts scheduled for liftoff at 7:38 p.m. EDT on Friday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.