The go-to aircraft when it comes to ridiculing Second World War German aircraft design, the Bv 141 was an extremely efficient ...

These are an ongoing series of extraordinary aircraft existing at the extreme cutting edge of technology. The “X-planes” are radical, often bizarre, machines that push the boundaries of what is ...

The U.S. Navy has quietly written a small but telling check to a company working on a solar‑electric aircraft that can stay ...

The Northrop X-4 Bantam had a tendency to pitch nose-down at high speeds—generally not a desirable condition for a plane. Experimental aircraft—usually designated by “X” markings in U.S. aircraft ...

The experimental XB-1 aircraft, made by US company Boom Supersonic, flew faster than the speed of sound on 28 January. The achievement is the first time any civil aircraft has gone supersonic over the ...

At the end of October 2025, when the government shutdown was beginning to get serious, American space agency NASA conducted the first flight of the X-59 experimental supersonic aircraft. It was a ...