Decades before the rumored SR-72 “Darkstar,” America had already conquered hypersonic flight with the X-15 rocket plane. -In ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Raun Robinson (died 1975) was an engineer with North American Aviation who worked on numerous aircraft, including the North American X-15. This ...

For over 70 years, the X-planes have represented the cutting edge of American aerospace innovation, experimental aircraft built to defy limits and unlock the future of flight. In this video, we ...

The pilot of the X-15 had to manually jettison the lower fin to land properly because it was longer than the rear skids of ...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of 13 glass-mounted 70mm (2.75 x 3.5 inch) color transparencies of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) North American X-15 hypersonic ...

NASA plans to conduct community overflights beginning this year, flying the X-59 over select American cities to collect public feedback on the “sonic thump.” ...

Going faster than Mach 1 opened the door to more research and testing in the years that followed, eventually leading to NASA's North American X-15 hitting Mach 6.7 in 1967.

Tragedy and coexistence have been intertwined in South Carolina’s history from the beginning. The sugar-exporting island of ...

A Fort Worth defense contractor has been awarded a contract to build a military aircraft prototype with high-speed vertical ...

North American Flight Services revealed a 40,500-square-foot terminal and hangar complex at Saratoga County Airport, blending ...

America’s B-2 stealth bombers, which carried out the weekend attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, are among the most secretive aircraft in the nation, with few glimpses ever shown of it… ...

NASA announced a successful test of its X-59 aircraft at U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, Calif., that could lead to ...