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Boeing Phantom Works plans to resume flight testing of the X-50A Dragonfly canard rotor/wing (CRW) technology demonstrator in February, after completing analysis of data from the 80s first hover flight [...]

Boeing has taken the wraps off the Bird of Prey, a previously classified company-funded demonstrator flown between 1996 and 1999 to test stealth technology. The $67 million PhantomWorks programme included [...]

A 25-year-veteran has given up the helm of the very popular, year-round Sun 'n Fun Fly-In, a major tourism and economic generator in Lakeland. Billy Henderson, a founder of the [...]

Flutter is more severe at lower altitudes because the air is more dense. Therefore, X-56A researchers will conduct flight tests at higher altitudes to ensure the aircraft can adapt to [...]

The Pentagon's newest experimental military aircraft isn't designed to evade radar or drop bombs; it's an unmanned science platform that could make high-altitude, long-endurance air travel safer. Air Force Research [...]

Sport planes are ultralight and light-experimental vehicles. Ultralights are not legally aircraft and are exempt from all FAA and other regulation. All such craft sold in the US are homebuilt, though the government may soon allow US manufacture.

The Experimental Aircraft Assn was founded to promote flying for fun. The group's rapid expansion has both reflected and driven a growing interest in flying and airplanes for their own sake. Its annual convention is now the center of the aviation world.