X-Plane

Military Aviation News September 27, 2026

Mysterious NASA X-Plane Emerges as Former SR-71 Blackbird 844 Vanishes From Display

Aviation News – NASA quietly removed a retired Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird from display at Edwards Air Force Base after agency leadership teased a new experimental…

Military Aviation News March 10, 2026

Bell’s High-Speed Vertical Lift Demonstrator Officially Designated X-76 as Project Enters Build Phase

Aviation News – Bell’s innovative high-speed vertical lift demonstrator has officially received the X-76 designation from DARPA after successfully passing its Critical Design Review. This…

Military Aviation News May 23, 2024

Sikorsky Flight-Tests Scalable ‘Rotor Blown Wing’ UAS for DARPA Project

The VTOL tail sitter features proprotors for flight efficiency STRATFORD, Conn., May 22, 2024 – Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, is conducting flight tests to…

General Aviation News April 3, 2018

NASA Selects Lockheed Martin Skunk Works® to Build X-Plane

Supersonic commercial travel is on the horizon. Today NASA awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) Skunk Works® a contract to design, build and flight test the Low-Boom…

Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) X-plane preliminary

Civilian aviation news February 24, 2017

NASA Wind Tunnel Tests Lockheed Martin’s quiet supersonic passenger X-Plane

PALMDALE, California, Feb. 24, 2017 – Supersonic passenger airplanes are another step closer to reality as NASA and Lockheed Martin begin the first high-speed wind…