B-52B test plane flies final mission
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The record-setting speed by the X-43A experimental scramjet engine on Tuesday marked the final operational mission for NASA&#39;s B-52B test aircraft.
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MOJAVE, Calif. A test pilot yesterday made a successful foray into space marked by a white-knuckle ascent in which his rocket ship rolled at least 16 times in 16 seconds.
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The British Airways plane that crash-landed at Heathrow is being moved from the airport's southern runway.
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America&#39;s new heavy-lifting rocket takes its much-anticipated test flight Saturday, if Mother Nature cooperates. The Boeing Delta 4-Heavy rocket was supposed to launch today, but the forecast for strong winds
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An open pocket knife, two Smith and Wesson revolvers, now rusty, and an airman's gilded badge - all flew with the Canadian and British crew of a World War II bomber on its final mission carrying aid for ...Comment
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September 2006 marks the 50th anniversary of two aerospace milestones that involved both triumph and tragedy for the flight test community at Edwards Air Force Base.
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A mechanician examines a plane of Chinese Bayi aerobatics team at an airport in Zhuhai, Guangdong, Oct. 31, 2004. The 5th China International Aviation &amp; Aerospace Exhibition during which five aerobatics teams
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The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the costliest weapons procurement project ever, is set to make its maiden test flight next week, a U.S. general running the project said on Tuesday.
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Brazil has successfully launched a test rocket from the Alcantara base in northern Brazil on Saturday, October 23. The two-stage VSB-30 prototype flew for seven minutes at an altitude of about 100 kilometers above the earth.
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NASA will test its latest jet-powered aircraft for the final time next week, aiming to set a world record by flying at 10 times the speed of sound.
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A final reunion of more than 150 airmen who flew Mosquito planes during World War II is to be held on Saturday.
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By Alicia Chang  EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.  --  Atlantis and its seven astronauts took a cross-country detour and landed safely in the Mojave Desert Friday, ending a two-week mission of construction on the international space station and bring a crew member home from the outpost.
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NASA managers said the craft showed no sign of damage, and they cleared it to land early Thursday.
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The NASA (news - web sites) turbojet notoriously known as the &quot;vomit comet&quot; for its use in training astronauts for weightlessness made its final flight Friday.
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All 19 people on board a Polish EADS Casa military transport aircraft died when it crashed as it was coming in to land at Miroslawiec airport in northwest Poland, the Polish airforce said Thursday.
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The X-43A aircraft flew at a speed of around Mach 9.6 - nearly ten times the speed of sound - after a booster rocket took it to around 110,000 feet and then separated.
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The costliest international warplane project, the F-35 Lightning 2 Joint Strike Fighter, safely completed its first test flight on Friday, advancing a $276.5 billion program financed by the United States and eight other countries.