The latest generation of experimental aircraft is no longer chasing raw speed alone, it is trying to change how the air itself behaves around a flying machine. From quiet supersonic jets to flexible ...

Generally speaking, when an aircraft goes supersonic, everybody around it knows it, as the sonic boom it generates when breaking through the sound barrier makes no secret of what is going on. Could ...

The FAA has released the 2026 Oshkosh notice detailing arrival and departure procedures for EAA AirVenture pilots.

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 ...

The solar-powered aircraft circumnavigated the world in 2015 and 2016.

Experimental amateur-built (E-AB) aircraft have a disproportionately higher accident rate, particularly fatal ones, primarily due to powerplant failures and loss of control in flight, rather than ...

An experimental unmanned hybrid-fuel aircraft has taken to the skies for testing over Edwards Air Force Base in the High Desert, officials confirmed Wednesday, May 6. The XRQ-73, developed by DARPA in ...

Solar Impulse 2, the pioneering aircraft known for the first round-the-world solar flight, was lost during an uncrewed flight ...

Japan has completed a ground combustion test of a ramjet engine designed for a ...