Future fighter takes to the skies
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The multi-billion dollar Anglo-American Joint Strike Fighter successfully completes its maiden test flight.
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Extraordinary advances in unmanned aerial vehicles signify progress in the field of robotics.
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In what promises to be a second record-breaking flight in less than eight months, NASA aims to make aviation history today by flying an airplane powered by a scramjet engine at 10 times the speed of sound.
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A 23-year-old pilot took off Wednesday in a single-engine plane on the last leg of his three-month quest to circumnavigate the earth alone.
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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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Completing the first leg of a quest for a $10 million prize, a test pilot took a privately financed plane past the cusp of space on Wednesday.
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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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The ultimate flight-to-safety investment.
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By JILL SCHENSUL, TRAVEL EDITOR "Aviation is proof that given the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible ." Capt.
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PASADENA, Calif. There could be something new under the sun next year -- the first controlled flight by a spaceship designed to run off solar wind.
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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 fighter plane, and a controversial jump-jet transport, would fulfill a 50-year-old goal for the corps.
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The creator of  the first privately-financed craft to carry a human into space traveled to New York to show detailed models of a new bigger, model.
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MOJAVE, Calif. - Ignoring a warning to abort the flight, a test pilot took a stubby-looking rocket plane on a corkscrewing, white-knuckle ride past the edge of the atmosphere Wednesday, completing the first stage of a quest to win a $10 million prize...
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A test pilot took a privately funded rocket to space and is now starting back, setting the stage to win a $10 million prize.
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A plan to build the worldâs first supersonic business jet is the latest sign that business jets are becoming the fastest-growing segment of the aerospace industry.
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It&#39;s small, but it&#39;s fast, as NASA&#39;s unmanned &quot;scramjet&quot; proved Tuesday in a record-breaking demonstration above the Pacific Ocean.