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

The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday agreed to delay by one year a requirement for newly delivered U.S. passenger airplanes to have a secondary barrier to the flight deck to prevent ...

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

The UK announced recently that it would purchase its own squadron of F-35As, which the Ministry of Defence confirmed on Monday could drop nuclear gravity bombs. These British planes are expected to be ...

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 ...

Large parts of the USA suffered a radio blackout due to major activity in space this week. On June 15, North America found itself under a shortwave radio blackout, leading to a loss of signal at ...

The U.S. was at the forefront of this technology in the 1960s with the development of the rocket-powered North American X-15, which tallied 199 successful flights.

The achievement marks the first instance of an American craft breaking the hypersonic barrier since the conclusion of the manned North American X-15 programme in 1968. Notably, such milestones may ...

Conservators had the rare opportunity to examine the cockpit of the Museum's North American X-15-1, allowing the stabilization of its delicate plastic components.

The X-15 is the only conventional aircraft that has ever been flown above the “Karman Line” separating the Earth’s atmosphere from space.

The North American X-15 rocket-powered research aircraft bridged the gap between manned flight within the atmosphere and manned flight beyond the atmosphere into space. After completing its initial ...