That's where Dave Mann and Mark Sonday decided it should be. Sonday, the owner of the Kenosha Military Museum, and Mann, the airport manager at Batten International Airport, acquired the 1981 EC ...

With ungainly proportions, Beechcraft wings and tail surfaces, and a primitive flight control computer strapped to the nose, the Bell X-14 was a decidedly unconventional X-plane. [Credit: NASA ...

NASA X-Planes probably wouldn't exist at all if it weren't for the Douglas X-3 Stiletto, a craft that began construction all the way back in 1949, making its first flight in 1952.

But it could provide ideas for startups seeking to get into supersonic aircraft, and have applications for military jets as well. One of NASA's goals with the X-59 is to establish a standard for ...

Military planes sometimes have tail fins that form a V-shape rather than the traditional single fin. Here's why they have them and if it helps them fly.