NASA’s X-59 test flights rely on chase aircraft to monitor safety, communications, data collection, and instrumentation as ...

NASA pilot David “Nils” Larson outlines X-59 early flight tests, design features, risk management, and planned research ...

Space agency doubles the jet fighter research fleet for its X-59 quiet supersonic flight program.

Electric air taxis and other novel aircraft are expected to participate in operational trials as soon as summer 2026.

General Atomics and Anduril are simultaneously testing their respective YFQ-42 and YFQ-44 aerial drones. Only one of the two will ultimately win the Air Force’s “Collaborative Combat Aircraft” ...

The F-35 Lightning II was used in August 2025 to successfully evaluate three B61-12 test assets during a multi-day test campaign. Sandia National Laboratories and the National Nuclear Security ...

The stereotypical image of a test pilot is a Yeageresque individual in a flight suit with a test card strapped to one knee, ...

When NASA’s Dragonfly begins full rotorcraft integration and testing in early 2026, the mission team will tap into a trove of ...

Jekta Switzerland S.A. (Payerne, Switzerland), the company behind the passenger hydro aircraft –zero emissions 100 (PHA-ZE 100) amphibious aircraft, has begun flight trials with a 1:9 scaled prototype ...