When it comes to experimental aircraft, looks can be quite deceiving—especially when designs break from traditional “norms.” This is certainly the case with the Martin (now Lockheed Martin) X-24A, a ...

When you think of unconventional aircraft, flying wings have had plenty of time in the sun over the last few decades. With striking designs like the B-2 Spirit and F-117A Nighthawk on the flight line, ...

The 1970s were extremely important years for space exploration. Fresh from landing for the first time on the Moon, the Americans were hard at work trying to design reusable spacecraft for repeated ...

In the 1960s, NASA wanted to understand how a spacecraft might return from space and land on a runway without a traditional wing, which led to a study of the lifting body. The HL-10 was one of five ...

Lockheed Martin has revealed its latest thinking on NASA's OrbitalSpace Plane (OSP) with the opening of a demonstration centre inWashingtonDC. Whereas Boeing is believed to have selected a ballistic ...

Ask someone to picture an airplane and they’re likely to think of what is essentially a tube with wings and a stabilizing tail tacked onto one end of said tube. Yet it is also no secret that the lift ...