Throughout the 1950s, aircraft designers around the world began developing a unique aircraft configuration, called a tail-sitter. Unlike conventional airplanes, tail sitting planes rested on their ...

Boeing and NASA will pause work on the X-66 Sustainable Flight Demonstrator, an experimental plane design featuring long, thin wings meant to make the plane more fuel efficient.

The world of experimental self-built aircraft is full of oddities, but perhaps the most eye-catching of all is the JD-2 “Dyke Delta” designed and built by [John Dyke] in the 1960s. Buil… ...

Most of Northrop’s first experimental flying wings were painted all yellow, however this made it difficult to determine whether the aircraft was flying inverted from the ground and the air, as a ...

The PD-2, a “roadable kit” for the Glasair Sportsman GS-2 experimental, folding-wing, single-prop aircraft, is the idea of Trey Johnson, founder of Plane Driven of Renton, Wash. Johnson ...