How NASA used the F-4 Phantom II for unusual research, from biomedical monitoring flights and monkey experiments to sonic ...

How NASA used the F-104 Starfighter's razor-thin wing to explore supersonic handling, shuttle approaches, and X-15 support.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – You may one day board a plane where the wings will look very different. Future airplanes are ditching traditional wing design for something sleeker—long, thin wings braced with ...

Research and data obtained during the testing of these and other experimental aircraft would lead to today’s B-2 Spirit bomber and beyond. American concerns that Great Britain might fall to Axis ...

Today, aircraft wings are increasingly designed to prioritize stealth characteristics over raw speed—giving them a smooth, unbroken connection to the aircraft’s main fuselage. The wing of a fighter ...

The Adaptive Compliant Trailing Edge (ACTE) project at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center has just replaced an airplane’s aluminum flaps with a continuously bendable surface assembly that forms ...