NASA’s X-59 test flights rely on chase aircraft to monitor safety, communications, data collection, and instrumentation as ...

NASA pilot David “Nils” Larson outlines X-59 early flight tests, design features, risk management, and planned research ...

When NASA’s Dragonfly begins full rotorcraft integration and testing in early 2026, the mission team will tap into a trove of ...

The Boeing 777X test plane WH004 (N779XZ) has returned to the skies for the first time in over three and a half years. This test aircraft first flew in September 2020 but was grounded in late 2021, ...

Electric air taxis and other novel aircraft are expected to participate in operational trials as soon as summer 2026.

The F-35 Lightning II was used in August 2025 to successfully evaluate three B61-12 test assets during a multi-day test campaign. Sandia National Laboratories and the National Nuclear Security ...

General Atomics and Anduril are simultaneously testing their respective YFQ-42 and YFQ-44 aerial drones. Only one of the two will ultimately win the Air Force’s “Collaborative Combat Aircraft” ...

Jekta Switzerland S.A. (Payerne, Switzerland), the company behind the passenger hydro aircraft –zero emissions 100 (PHA-ZE 100) amphibious aircraft, has begun flight trials with a 1:9 scaled prototype ...

A pivotal moment looms as Boeing's largest MAX variant enters the next phase of certification, but lingering issues threaten ...