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Why Is The 'Retired' F-117 Nighthawk Still Flying?
Why is the F-117 Nighthawk, America's first true "stealth" aircraft, still prowling the skies years after its retirement in 2008? Since...


How real is the hypersonic aircraft revolution?
We live in an era of fast technological change: self-driving cars, drones, artificial intelligence. Yet the tube-shaped subsonic...


Hypersonics stays high on Darpa’s list for 2017
A new start for fiscal 2017 is the Advanced Full-Range Engine (AFRE) project to demonstrate the transition from turbojet to dual-mode...


Sky pioneers: A light aircraft revolution is taking off
Inside a hangar in the San Francisco Bay Area, a young French entrepreneur is busy readying a small, odd-looking, bubble-shaped aircraft....


Re-imagining the drone concept.
Despite not being in action, drones are nothing new to the game of home package delivery. This drone concept for FedEx, however,...


Mitsubishi X-2 Shinshin: Japan's new 5th Generation Stealth Fighter Jet
This Thursday, Japan’s new Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Agency revealed the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Advanced Technology...


Airbus to expand oversize air transport capability: new Beluga
Launches development of new Beluga oversize transport aircraft To industrially accompany the A350 XWB ramp-up and other aircraft...


DARPA's Vertical Take Off And Landing Combat Drone Could Revolutionize Naval Combat
Northrop Grumman scored another win this last year after its Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node (TERN) concept was tapped for...
XB-70 Valkyrie Mach 3 bomber’s emergency landing video.
On Apr. 30, 1966, the second XB-70 prototype, the Air Vehicle 2 (AV 2), suffered a short-circuit in the landing gear retraction system...


Il-78 tankers refueling a Tu-160 strategic bomber over the Caspian Sea.
Watch this Il-78M Midas refueling a Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bomber over the Caspian Sea. On Nov. 20, for the first time ever, two...
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