NASA's about to fly its powerful X-plane. It could make history.
After the first test flights in 2025, Lockheed Martin will transfer the plane to NASA. Then, after acoustic testing over ...
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Good FLYING Reads: ‘Waiting for Spaceships’
"Waiting for Spaceships," by aviation writer and photographer Ted Huetter, celebrates the golden age of the shuttle program.
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From X-15 to The Moon: Edge of Space Short Film
One is at the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California, painted with the serial number 56-6672. Another is housed at the Pima Air & Space Museum near Davis-Monthan Air ...
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Today in Aviation History: First Flight of the Bell X-1
On this day in aviation history, January 19, 1946, the Bell X-1 high-speed research aircraft, made its first flight. While this first flight was in fact a gliding test, the X-1 would become the first ...
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The Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk Variants
By 1998, the Global Hawk took its first flight from Edwards Air Force Base in California. Demand was high for rapid ... RQ-4E was moved to a display at the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Berlin ...
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Pilot safe after F-35 military jet suffers 'significant damage' in accident at Alaska base
In May, an F-35 fighter jet on its way from Texas to Edwards Air Force Base near Los Angeles crashed after the pilot stopped to refuel in New Mexico. The pilot was taken to a hospital with serious ...
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F-35 pilot ejects before crash at Alaska base
In that incident, an F-35 on its way from Texas to Edwards Air Force Base near Los Angeles crashed after taking off following a refueling stop in New Mexico. The pilot had serious injuries.