Defense One

DARPA picks two firms to design a fast, runway-less airplane

Two companies will vie to design a new high-speed, runway-independent aircraft, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency announced today. “As of May 2024, two performers—Aurora Flight Sciences and ...
Newsweek

The High-Speed X-Plane That Could Revolutionize Warfare

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Boeing and its research subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences have unveiled ...
The Aviationist

Aurora Reveals New Renderings Of Latest X-Plane Design For DARPA SPRINT Program

A collaboration between Aurora Flight Sciences and Boeing is working on an innovative high-speed, vertical lift aircraft concept. They have just completed the conceptual design review and target first ...
Mashable

NASA reveals its X-plane. It will fly over the U.S. at extreme speeds.

The first reveal of NASA's X-59 supersonic plane onstage at the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California. Credit: NASA / YouTube Over a half-century ago, the U.S. banned commercial ...
Smithsonian Magazine

In a First, NASA’s Experimental X-59 Plane Flew Faster Than the Speed of Sound, Setting the Stage for ‘Quiet’ Supersonic Aircraft

The United States banned supersonic flights over its land in 1973 due to their ear-splitting sonic booms. Experts are building a plane that should travel at those speeds but create only gentle thumps ...
Mashable

NASA's about to fly its powerful X-plane. It could make history.

Planes that fly faster than the speed of sound create thunderous supersonic booms. But with NASA's X-59 plane, that could change. The space agency plans for the aircraft's first flight in 2025, an ...
New Atlas

Meet DARPA's X-76: The rotorcraft that flies like a jet

There's a new X-plane in town. Bell Textron's tilt-rotor aircraft being built for DARPA's Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) program, which aims to combine the features of a helicopter ...
The Aviationist

New Renderings Unveiled for Aurora’s X-Plane Concept Featuring Fan-in-Wing Technology

Aurora Flight Sciences’ Fan-in-Wing technology development progresses: flight testing of the final design is targeted for 2027. Aurora Flight Sciences, a subsidiary of Boeing, has just unveiled new ...
autoevolution

DARPA X-Plane That Uses Jets of Air to Maneuver Slowly Crawling to First Flight in 2027

Aviation, as humanity has been experiencing for the past 120 years or so, means an aircraft needs engines to take off and fly, wings to keep it in the air, and physical control surfaces (stabilizers, ...
The National Interest

X-31: The X-Plane That Should Not Be Forgotten

Summary and Key Points: The X-31 Enhanced Fighter Maneuverability Demonstrator, developed in the 1990s by Rockwell-Messerschmidt-Böklow-Blohm, was a groundbreaking aircraft designed to explore ...
New Atlas

X-59 supersonic X-plane gets rolled out by NASA and Lockheed Martin

With the usual ballyhoo, NASA and Lockheed Martin have rolled out the X-59 supersonic aircraft today. In a ceremony at the famous Skunk Works in Palmdale, California, the experimental plane was ...