During the Cold War, the US military developed...  ...he Cold War, the US military developed top secret aircraft at the Air Force facilities at Groom Lake, also k...  ...ies that are part of modern military and civilian aircraft alike. Read the stories and see photographs of th...  ...ia.com/2011/04/top-secret-t...

Twenty years after the Cold War ended, more and mo...  ...It was a serious game of concealing experimental aircraft (code named OXCART) from Soviet spy satellites. T...

The US military is making ever more use of unm...  ...of unmanned fighters and intelligence gathering aircraft . The great thing about this type of aircraft is that they can loiter over some far away battle...  ...arsenal. The Phantom Ray is the size of a fighter aircraft , and...

Cockpit Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet CRJ700 in Cologne Put yourself in an airplane cockpit! What kind of airplane? That's your choice, as there are 14 cockpits to select from, from a helicopter to a bombardier (...

The Ames-Dryden (AD)-1 was an experimental aircraft developed by NASA during the 1970s. Its wing cou...  ...nsport might achieve twice the fuel economy of an aircraft sporting more conventional wings.[...] The obl...  ...ght and swinging to angles of up to 60 degrees as aircraft...

The biggest rooms in the world are those built...  ...ggest rooms in the world are those built to store aircraft . Not only are they huge, but some have interestin...  ...s built for the production and operation of a new aircraft called the CL160. However, the aircraft project...

On July 11, thirty people set a world record w...  ...observed from a non-experimental and non-military aircraft . Brown said the team is submitting a DVD to the G...  ...record set was for non-experimental, non-military aircraft - an early supersonic Concorde chased the shadow f...

We've previously mentioned that the solar powe...  ...We've previously mentioned that the solar powered aircraft Solar Impulse was able to remain in the air for a...  ...QinetiQ's press release: Launched by hand, the aircraft flies by day on solar power delivered by amorphou...  ...ys no thicker than sheets o...

They must have seemed like a good idea at the time...  ...were spent researching them. However, these ten aircraft , although they made it off the drawing board, did...

In 1934, electrician and hobbyist Frank Skroback built the first airplane that could be driven on a road. Or the first car that could be flown. It has six wings and an overall width of seven feet, so it can fit ins...