This rare video shows how the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit’s control surfaces move during checks carried out before taxi. In March last year, three U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirits, belonging to the 509th ...

Key Points and Summary - Largely forgotten, the X-44 MANTA (Multi-Axis No-Tail Aircraft) was an ambitious concept in the late 1990s by Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works, NASA, and the U.S. Air Force to ...

DARPA has awarded Aurora Flight Sciences a phase 2 contract for its CRANE (Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors) program, following wind tunnel testing of a small-scale X-plane that ...

Since the Wright brothers’ first flight more than a century ago introduced wing warping, almost every aircraft manufactured has included adjustable, external control surfaces: whether they be flaps, ...

Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences has begun manufacturing a secretive new X-plane for the US military, designated the X-65. Aurora is under contract to develop the experimental jet aircraft for ...

The international aerospace company Airbus recently unveiled a model of a new drone called the Low Observable UAV Testbed (LOUT), which reportedly combines several undisclosed stealth technologies.