750 F-35s Now Delivered, Navy To Put Some Of Its Oldest Test Models Into Storage
The F-35 program has hit a major production milestone as primary test efforts are finally spinning down.
Tag: flight testing
Retired Marine C-9B Jet Transport Is Getting Second Life As An Air Force Sensor Testbed
The Marine Corps had been the last operator of these militarized McDonnell Douglas DC-9 airliners, retiring its last examples four years ago.
NASA’s Experimental X-56B Unmanned Aircraft Suffered An “Anomaly” After Takeoff
How much damage the X-56B, which NASA only began using in a new flight test program in April, may have sustained in this incident is unclear.
That Mysterious Black Target From Kirtland AFB Was Related To A Program Called TDU-X
Documents show connections between this SR-71-shaped object and the testing of countermeasures systems and lasers.
World’s Biggest Airplane Takes To The Skies For A Second Time After A Two Year Hiatus (Updated)
After enduring major uncertainty about its future after the death of Paul Allen, Stratolaunch’s primary owner, the firm is back to flight testing.
The Air Force Says Its First Hypersonic Missile Will Make Its Inaugural Flight Within 30 Days
The new schedule comes after an Air Force official said just recently that the first flight test of the AGM-183 would take place this past week.
New Owner Of Stratolaunch And World’s Largest Plane To Refocus On Hypersonic Testing
New ownership has spared Stratolaunch, the company behind the massive Roc aircraft, the largest plane ever flown, from a sad end following the death of its founder, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, last year. The firm now looks set to take a new direction, providing high-speed flight testing services rather than focus on space launch services, amid a boom in hypersonic weapon and aircraft development within the U.S. military, which will likely become a major focus of the Roc’s future activities.
This Test Force Highlight Video Shows The B-2 Spirit As You’ve Never Seen It Before
The B-2 Combined Test Force turned an exotic flying-wing stealth jet into the USAF’s deadliest weapon of war nearly three decades ago.
Navy’s Trash Is NASA’s Treasure As Surplus F/A-18Bs Begin Arriving At Armstrong Flight Test Center
Even older jets could help bolster the organization’s ability to conduct important aviation research.
NASA Puts Its F/A-18s and F-15s To Work To Help Solve Pilot Oxygen Deprivation Mystery
The organization’s aviators are gathering baseline physiological and cockpit environment data to help figure out what’s choking military fliers.