Collaborate Disseminate
Since 1951, NASA (known in those pre-space days as NACA) and the United States Air Force have used the “X” designation for experimental aircraft that push technological boundaries. The best known of these vehicles, such as the X-1 and X-15, were used to study flight at extreme altitude and …read more
Continue reading NASA Readies New Electric X-Plane For First Flight
The history of aviation is full of notable X-Planes, a number of which heralded in new generations of flight. The Bell X-1 became the first aircraft to break the speed of sound during level flight in 1947 with the legendary Charles “Chuck” Yeager at the controls. A few years later the X-2 would push man up to Mach 3, refining our understanding of supersonic flight. In the 1960’s, the North American built X-15 would not only take us to the edge of space, but set a world speed record which remains unbroken.
Compared to the heady post-war days when it …read more
Continue reading Shushing Sonic Booms: NASA’s Supersonic X-Plane to Take Flight in 2021
Every hobby needs to have a few people who take it just a little too far. In particular, the aviation hobbies – Radio control flying, FPV multicopter racing, and the like – seem to inspire more than their fair share of hard-core builds. In witness whereof we present this over-the-top home-brew flight simulator.
His wife and friends think he’s crazy, and we agree. But [XPilotSimPro] is that special kind of crazy that it takes to advance the state of the art, and we applaud him for that. A long-time fan of flight simulator games, he was lucky enough to log …read more
The space agency wants to make aviation quiet, economical and environmentally friendly. Continue reading NASA Funded 5 Experiments that Could Change How We Fly
It’s hoped the X-57 will form the basis for clean, quiet short-haul airliners. Continue reading NASA’s New X-Plane Is an Anyplane Prototype for the People
