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The world’s largest flying aircraft has reached new heights, with Stratolaunch today completing the seventh test flight of its gigantic Roc carrier plane and logging a record altitude for the huge aircraft in the process. The exercise was also used to … Continue reading World’s largest plane soars to its highest altitude yet
On June 15, Airbus’ first A321XLR (Xtra Long Range) airliner completed its maiden flight over Hamburg-Finkenwerder Airport with test pilots Thierry Diez and GabrielDiaz de Villegas Giron at the controls for a four-hour shakedown systems test.Continue R… Continue reading Airbus’s long-range A321XLR passenger jet makes maiden flight
Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works advanced development programs division has set a new world flight endurance record for a Group 2 (5 to
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Continue reading Lockheed Martin Stalker XVE drone claims world endurance record
The Royal Navy’s 700X Naval Air Squadron has completed intensive testing of heavy-lift drones at RNAS Culdrose in Cornwall, UK, to determine their fitness for resupplying aircraft carriers and other frontline naval operations.Continue ReadingCategory: … Continue reading Royal Navy tests heavy-lift drones to supply aircraft carriers
Prestigious US firm Gensler has revealed plans for a striking new museum that’s dedicated to the history of test flights and historic aircraft. The building will be defined by a metallic roof that’s inspired by the distinctive angular features of the L… Continue reading Stealth-plane-inspired Flight Test Museum readies for takeoff
The US Air Force’s AFWERX technology accelerator program has announced that in December 2021 it successfully completed the first flight of an electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft with an Air Force pilot at the remote controls.Continue… Continue reading USAF makes first eVTOL flight remotely controlled by an Air Force pilot
With the decision on the replacement of the US Army’s UH-60 Black Hawk fleet coming down to the wire, the partners behind the Lockheed Martin Sikorsky-Boeing SB>1 Defiant have announced that their candidate advanced rotorcraft has completed its first m… Continue reading Defiant X attack helicopter completes first mission profile test flights
In an echo of the Cold War, Russia’s first newly manufactured Tupolev Tu-160M (NATO designation Backfire) supersonic nuclear heavy bomber completed its maiden flight on January 12, reaching a height of 600 m (2,000 ft) during its 30-minute test.Continu… Continue reading Full production of Russia’s Tu-160 bomber restarted after 30 years
Palo Alto startup Archer has started flight tests with its autonomous, two-seat Maker demonstration aircraft, fulfilling a promise it made when it popped out of stealth mode 18 months ago to start demo flights by the end of 2021.Continue ReadingCategor… Continue reading Archer celebrates the first flight of its Maker eVTOL
Boeing’s Loyal Wingman prototype combat drone reached a new milestone as two of the autonomous aircraft took to the skies recently in separate flights over the Woomera Range Complex in Australia. This marks the first time that the second drone has flow… Continue reading Second Loyal Wingman combat drone takes to the air for the first time