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

In July 1963, NASA’s X-15 was supposed to fly a carefully planned high-altitude test. Instead, small deviations pushed it past the Kármán line, turning Joe Walker into the first American civilian in ...

A small fleet of modified Eagles continues to provide valuable service to NASA even as the Air Force counts down to fully divesting the jets.

An important part of data collection for the United States space program, the North American X-15 had astonishing performance utilizing the technology of the 1950s and 60s. The North American X-15 was ...

Key Points and Summary - The X-15 was a rocket-powered research aircraft that pushed human flight to the edge of space and deep into the hypersonic regime. -Air-launched from a B-52, three X-15s flew ...

Two F-15Ds of the Oregon Air National Guard have been transferred to NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center, where they will join the ones already operated by the agency. NASA has announced on Jan.

At the time when most of us were getting ready to unpack our Christmas gifts, NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, was already celebrating: on December 22, it received two F ...

NASA has received two retired F-15 jets from the U.S. Air Force to support research flights of its new X-59 'quiet' supersonic aircraft.

The "quiet supersonic aircraft's historic first flight is on the horizon, with final ground tests about to begin." That's how NASA decided to mark this year's National Aviation Day, getting us all ...

A. Scott Crossfield Papers, Accession number 2006-0041, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. A. Scott Crossfield Papers, Acc. 2006-0041, National ...