Aircraft are fundamentally a weird thing, and only a commonplace sight to (some of) those born in the last hundred years. But overexposure to the Boeing and Airbus aircraft we see flying over every ...

Robert Bartini was a scientist, artist and aircraft designer whose ideas were often far ahead of the technology of his era.

WC-135R Constant Phoenix on the runway. - Wikimedia Commons/U.S. Air Force AFCENT by Airman 1st Class Zeeshan Naeem, cropped and resized, Public Domain. There are some aircraft that will forever be ...

The X-1’s fuselage was designed to resemble a .50 caliber bullet—one of the only shapes known to have stable flight at supersonic speeds. The Bell X-1 hangs today from the ceiling of the National Air ...

Top 10: The Strangest Aircraft Flying Today NASA’s X-59 QueSST (a low-boom demonstrator) made its first flight on October 28, 2025. It is hoped that when it flies supersonically, it will produce a ...