Bell Aircraft Corporation's X-1 Glamorous Glennis was the first aircraft capable of breaking the sound barrier, and served as an important aeronautic step for American engineers hoping to ...

50 caliber bullet, and that became the fuselage shape of the X-1,” Bob van der Linden tells Inverse. He is the National Air and Space Museum Curator of Special Purpose Aircraft. “They knew it ...

The XB-1 is the one-third-scale platform that Boom is using as the foundation for its eventual Overture aircraft that aims ... the location where the Bell X-1 first broke the sound barrier in ...

After the war, Yeager became a test pilot at Muroc Army Air Field (now Edwards Air Force Base), becoming the first pilot to break the sound barrier in the rocket-powered Bell X-1 aircraft on ...

I’m an aircraft mechanic,” Max, a bearded man with chest-length flaxen hair who goes by the handle “airplanefactswithmax” explains to the audience in a clip viewed on X more than 10 ...

On Aug. 19, the Brazilian Air Force reported its MAFFS-equipped KC-390s had delivered about 1 million liters of water onto the fires since late June. Buying new aircraft is an expensive outlay for ...

The Japan MoD said that aircraft like the EP-3, the EW variant of the P-3C Orion, itself being replaced by the P-1 where it ...

Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defence (MND) reported a significant increase in Chinese military activity around Taiwan early ...

Axis No-Tail Aircraft," was a groundbreaking stealth fighter concept developed by NASA and the U.S. Air Force in 1999. It was envisioned as a tailless, highly maneuverable jet based on the F-22 but ...

Known as Flight Test 1, the 777-9 is one of four 777X test aircraft in Boeing's fleet. Flight Test 1 had flown more than 1,300 hours across some 540 flights, a flight-test engineer told Business ...

Boeing launched a stock offering that could raise up to $24.3 billion as the planemaker looks to strengthen its finances squeezed by a more than six-week strike by factory workers and preserve its ...

There is no evidence for the commonly held belief that nut allergens can be spread through aircraft ventilation systems ... Around 2–3% of children and 1–2% of adults in the UK have a food ...