The Stratolaunch Roc, the largest-wingspan aircraft ever flown, now serves as a reusable hypersonic testbed after its orbital-launch mission failed.
VectorHow Auto-GCAS automatically rolls an F-16 upright and pulls it out of a dive to save unconscious pilots from ground collision.
VectorBoom Supersonic's XB-1 broke the sound barrier in 2025, but the engine, economics, and 1973 rulebook are the real barriers to civil supersonic flight.
VectorRadio Hangar explores Boom Supersonic's XB-1, the Symphony Engine, and Whether a Startup Can Really Bring the Passenger Jet Back Through the Sound Barrier.
VectorHow ZeroAvia's hydrogen fuel cell powertrain works, what it has flown, and why the tank - not the fuel - is aviation's real hurdle.
VectorRadio Hangar explores CFM RISE, the Open Fan Engine With No Cowling, and the Twenty Percent Fuel Burn Bet on the Airplane That Replaces the Single-Aisle Jet.
VectorJetZero's blended wing body aims to cut airliner fuel burn by up to 50% using shape alone - here's how it works and when it might fly.
VectorNASA's X-57 Maxwell never flew, but its 14-motor electric design de-risked distributed propulsion for the entire eVTOL industry.
VectorNASA and Lockheed's X-59 Quesst turns the sonic boom into a soft thump, aiming to overturn the 1973 ban on supersonic flight over land.
VectorSierra Space's Dream Chaser is a lifting-body spaceplane built to land on ordinary runways with a gentle re-entry, but it hasn't yet flown to orbit.
VectorHow Auto-GCAS quietly monitors an F-16's flight path and takes control at the last recoverable instant to save pilots who have blacked out.
VectorNASA is building the Flight Dynamics Research Facility at Langley, its first new flight-dynamics wind tunnel in 40 years.
TowerNASA's X-59 aims to replace the sonic boom with a quiet 'thump' and overturn a 50-year U.S. ban on supersonic flight over land.
VectorRadio Hangar explores JetZero, the Blended Wing Body, and the Fifty-Percent Fuel Cut That Wants to Erase the Line Between the Wing and the Fuselage.
VectorHow the Pipistrel Velis Electro became the world's first certified electric airplane - and the battery math behind its 50-minute mission.
VectorThe Rotax 916 iS delivers 160 hp from a turbocharged four-cylinder that runs on car gas and flies with a single power lever.
VectorHow Category III autoland uses triple-redundant autopilots and a radio altimeter to land an airliner in fog the crew cannot see through.
VectorADS-B broadcasts your aircraft's position unencrypted and unauthenticated - here's why that tradeoff powers modern surveillance and exposes you.
VectorJetZero's full-scale blended wing body demonstrator aims to fly by 2027 and cut airliner fuel burn by up to 50 percent.
VectorThe Boeing X-66 is a NASA experimental jet with a long, strut-braced wing designed to cut airliner fuel burn by up to 30%.
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