DARPA’s X-76 experimental aircraft aims to combine helicopter flexibility with jet-like speeds and runway-independent flight.

Boeing built a flying, full-scale Star Wars X-wing not as a movie prop or a theme park gimmick, but as a real test of its electric cargo drone technology. The aircraft, a modified version of Boeing’s ...

China’s Mengzhou spacecraft crew module launches away from the pad during a successful pad abort test at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on June 17, 2025. Credit: CMSEO HELSINKI — China appears set ...

SALINAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Archer Aviation Inc. (NYSE: ACHR) today announced that its Midnight aircraft successfully completed its highest altitude flight to date, reaching altitudes of 7,000 ...

The Navy and Boeing have pushed back the initial flight test of the first MQ-25A Stingray aircraft carrier-based tanker aircraft into early 2026. The government-industry team insisted they are making ...

Autonomous air taxi developer Wisk Aero has handed a full-scale “Gen 6” prototype to its flight-test and operations team. The Mountain View-based start-up revealed the completed aircraft in 8 December ...

A rendering of Aurora's X-65 aircraft for DARPA's Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) project. (Aurora Flight Sciences) The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's ...

Stratolaunch may conduct a hypersonic test flight in the coming days from California's Mojave Air & Space Port. The company uses the world's largest aircraft, Roc, to launch its uncrewed, reusable ...

A General Atomics MQ-20 Avenger drone prepares for taxi at El Mirage Airfield, Calif. June 24, 2021. (Staff Sgt. Tabatha Arellano/Air Force) The pilot of a Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor stealth fighter ...

Anduril's collaborative combat aircraft, the YFQ-44A, had its first flight test at a California site Friday, the Air Force said. (U.S. Air Force) The second of the U.S. Air Force’s two prototype drone ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. SpaceX launched another of its mammoth Starship rockets on a test flight Monday, successfully making it halfway ...

• SpaceX’s Starship megarocket — the most powerful launch vehicle ever built — successfully completed an hour-long test flight. • The company has had a rocky year of test missions with this generation ...