US Air Force Just Revealed World's Most Advanced Fighter Jet
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The US Air Force has built and flown a mysterious full-scale prototype
The development is certain to shock the defense community, which last saw the first flight of an experimental fighter during the battle for the Joint Strike Fighter contract 20 years ago.
List of experimental aircraft
Avro 707 research aircraft in formation with Avro Vulcan bomber prototypes. Fairey Delta 2 research aircraft. Gloster E.28/39 jet engine research aircraft. Miles M.35 Libellula canard research aircraft. Armstrong Whitworth Ape 1926 - Variable configuration aerodynamic test vehicle. Armstrong Whitworth A.W.52 1947 - Jet powered flying wing.
List of X-planes
List of X-planes. The X-planes are a series of experimental United States aircraft and rockets, used to test and evaluate new technologies and aerodynamic concepts. They have an X designator within the US system of aircraft designations, which denotes the experimental research mission. Not all US experimental aircraft have been designated as X ...
The Air Force Has Already Flown a Secret Plane That Could Be Its Next
The U.S. Air Force has quietly built and flown a brand-new aircraft prototype that could become its next-generation fighter, the service's top acquisition official announced Tuesday. Dr. Will ...
F-16 SFW: The Experimental Jet That Could Have Redefined Aircraft
The F-16 SFW (Forward-Swept Wing) was an experimental fighter developed by General Dynamics in the 1970s as part of DARPA's Forward Swept Wing Program. Designed to reduce drag and improve low ...
The Air Force's next-gen fighter has moved into a critical new phase
WASHINGTON — The Air Force's secretive and highly classified Next Generation Air Dominance fighter program has started ... early experimental prototyping on NGAD in 2015, when he was the ...
AI-powered fighter jet takes Air Force leader for a historic ride
7 of 11 |. The X-62A VISTA aircraft, an experimental AI-enabled Air Force F-16 fighter jet, takes off on Thursday, May 2, 2024, at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The flight, with Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall riding in the front seat, is serving as a public statement of confidence in the future role of AI in air combat.
NASA, Lockheed Martin Reveal X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft
The X-59 is a unique experimental airplane, not a prototype - its technologies are meant to inform future generations of quiet supersonic aircraft. At 99.7 feet long and 29.5 feet wide, the aircraft's shape and the technological advancements it houses will make quiet supersonic flight possible. The X-59's thin, tapered nose accounts for ...
The US Air Force Is Moving Fast on AI-Piloted Fighter Jets
On the morning of December 1, 2022, a modified F-16 fighter jet codenamed VISTA X-62A took off from Edwards Air Force Base, roughly 60 miles north of Los Angeles. Over the course of a short test ...
US Air Force stages dogfights with AI-flown fighter jet
An experimental fighter jet has squared off against an F-16 in the first-ever artificial intelligence-fueled dogfights, ... VISTA, which stands for Variable In-flight Simulator Aircraft, is a ...
5 Key & Experimental Aircraft Flown By NASA
The Boeing X-66 is an experimental airliner under development by Boeing in collaboration with NASA. NASA says it is " the first X-plane specifically focused on helping the United States achieve net-zero aviation emissions by 2050." Boeing is working with NASA to build, test, and fly a full-scale X-66 demonstrator aircraft, hoping it could be ...
X-Planes at Armstrong
X-Planes. Experimental aircraft, or X-planes, are built for a wide range of research purposes - technology or concept demonstrators, unmanned test missiles, and even as prototypes. Here is an overview of X-planes researched and tested at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. 2010s-2020s.
AI-controlled Air Force fighter jet takes historic first flight
The X-62A VISTA aircraft, an experimental AI-enabled Air Force F-16 fighter jet, takes off on Thursday, May 2, 2024, at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. ... an experimental orange and white F-16 ...
US Air Force Secretly Builds, Flies Next-Generation Fighter Jet
The US Air Force designed, built, and flew a prototype of a next-generation fighter aircraft, a senior official told Defense News. The experimental fighter was developed under the service's ...
The Republic XF-84H was an experimental airframe based on the jet-powered, single-seat Republic F-84F Thunderstreak fighter. The XF-84H development attempted to mate the existing Republic fighter airframe to a turbine engine arrangement utilizing a supersonic propeller system to produce a speedy fighting platform as an alternative to the fuel-hungry, underpowered turbojet breeds of the time.
TFX Program
Tactical Fighter Experimental (TFX) The winning aircraft, the F-111 Aardvark Issued by United States Air Force: Proposals General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark ... In June 1961, Secretary McNamara ordered the go ahead of Tactical Fighter Experimental (TFX) despite Air Force and Navy efforts to keep their programs separate. [4]
The US Air Force's radical plan for a future fighter could field a jet
Award a contract to a single fighter manufacturer for an initial batch of aircraft. Roper said that industry could build about a squadron's worth of airplanes per year, or about 24 aircraft.
Grumman X-29: The impossible fighter jet with inverted wings
However, the Su-47 was almost twice as big as the X-29 and was built more like a full-fledged fighter than an experimental testbed. Despite this, the aircraft never entered production and only one ...
10 of the Rarest Experimental Aircraft of WWII
1. Fisher XP-75 Eagle. In the realm of unique concepts, the Fisher XP-75 Eagle takes flight with its distinctive design. Born from a 1943 expectation for a high-climbing, long-range aircraft, the XP-75 was armed with a similar configuration to the single-engine Bell P-39 but fell short of expectations during testing.
McDonnell XF-85 Goblin
The McDonnell XF-85 Goblin is an American prototype fighter aircraft conceived during World War II by McDonnell Aircraft.It was intended to deploy from the bomb bay of the Convair B-36 bomber as a parasite fighter.The XF-85's intended role was to defend bombers from hostile interceptor aircraft, a need demonstrated during World War II.McDonnell built two prototypes before the Air Force (USAF ...
What Would A Far Cheaper Next Generation Air Dominance Fighter ...
NGAD and CCAs, which will have significantly larger combat radii than current fighter aircraft, were viewed as a way to correct for this huge capability gap, but if the USAF is now moving to build ...
5 Experimental US Fighter Jets That Never Made it to Production
F-20 Tigershark, cheaper F-16 alternative, improved F-5E but canceled after low interest post completing 3 prototypes. The US Air Force and Navy have developed scores of experimental fighter jets that never went into production. Sometimes, the aircraft were just intended as a proof of concept. Other times, they lost to a competitor's design.
Boeing X-32
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) History. First flight. 18 September 2000. The Boeing X-32 is a concept demonstrator aircraft that was designed for the Joint Strike Fighter competition. It lost to the Lockheed Martin X-35 demonstrator, which was further developed into the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II.
Experimental Aircraft Programme
Video footage of the Experimental Aircraft Programme technology... Built by ourselves in the 1980s, it was the most advanced fighter aircraft ever built, and brought together technologies never seen before to make it an aircraft which was ahead of its time. It began life in May 1983, when our predecessor company - British Aerospace signed a ...
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The development is certain to shock the defense community, which last saw the first flight of an experimental fighter during the battle for the Joint Strike Fighter contract 20 years ago.
Avro 707 research aircraft in formation with Avro Vulcan bomber prototypes. Fairey Delta 2 research aircraft. Gloster E.28/39 jet engine research aircraft. Miles M.35 Libellula canard research aircraft. Armstrong Whitworth Ape 1926 - Variable configuration aerodynamic test vehicle. Armstrong Whitworth A.W.52 1947 - Jet powered flying wing.
List of X-planes. The X-planes are a series of experimental United States aircraft and rockets, used to test and evaluate new technologies and aerodynamic concepts. They have an X designator within the US system of aircraft designations, which denotes the experimental research mission. Not all US experimental aircraft have been designated as X ...
The U.S. Air Force has quietly built and flown a brand-new aircraft prototype that could become its next-generation fighter, the service's top acquisition official announced Tuesday. Dr. Will ...
The F-16 SFW (Forward-Swept Wing) was an experimental fighter developed by General Dynamics in the 1970s as part of DARPA's Forward Swept Wing Program. Designed to reduce drag and improve low ...
WASHINGTON — The Air Force's secretive and highly classified Next Generation Air Dominance fighter program has started ... early experimental prototyping on NGAD in 2015, when he was the ...
7 of 11 |. The X-62A VISTA aircraft, an experimental AI-enabled Air Force F-16 fighter jet, takes off on Thursday, May 2, 2024, at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The flight, with Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall riding in the front seat, is serving as a public statement of confidence in the future role of AI in air combat.
The X-59 is a unique experimental airplane, not a prototype - its technologies are meant to inform future generations of quiet supersonic aircraft. At 99.7 feet long and 29.5 feet wide, the aircraft's shape and the technological advancements it houses will make quiet supersonic flight possible. The X-59's thin, tapered nose accounts for ...
On the morning of December 1, 2022, a modified F-16 fighter jet codenamed VISTA X-62A took off from Edwards Air Force Base, roughly 60 miles north of Los Angeles. Over the course of a short test ...
An experimental fighter jet has squared off against an F-16 in the first-ever artificial intelligence-fueled dogfights, ... VISTA, which stands for Variable In-flight Simulator Aircraft, is a ...
The Boeing X-66 is an experimental airliner under development by Boeing in collaboration with NASA. NASA says it is " the first X-plane specifically focused on helping the United States achieve net-zero aviation emissions by 2050." Boeing is working with NASA to build, test, and fly a full-scale X-66 demonstrator aircraft, hoping it could be ...
X-Planes. Experimental aircraft, or X-planes, are built for a wide range of research purposes - technology or concept demonstrators, unmanned test missiles, and even as prototypes. Here is an overview of X-planes researched and tested at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. 2010s-2020s.
The X-62A VISTA aircraft, an experimental AI-enabled Air Force F-16 fighter jet, takes off on Thursday, May 2, 2024, at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. ... an experimental orange and white F-16 ...
The US Air Force designed, built, and flew a prototype of a next-generation fighter aircraft, a senior official told Defense News. The experimental fighter was developed under the service's ...
The Republic XF-84H was an experimental airframe based on the jet-powered, single-seat Republic F-84F Thunderstreak fighter. The XF-84H development attempted to mate the existing Republic fighter airframe to a turbine engine arrangement utilizing a supersonic propeller system to produce a speedy fighting platform as an alternative to the fuel-hungry, underpowered turbojet breeds of the time.
Tactical Fighter Experimental (TFX) The winning aircraft, the F-111 Aardvark Issued by United States Air Force: Proposals General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark ... In June 1961, Secretary McNamara ordered the go ahead of Tactical Fighter Experimental (TFX) despite Air Force and Navy efforts to keep their programs separate. [4]
Award a contract to a single fighter manufacturer for an initial batch of aircraft. Roper said that industry could build about a squadron's worth of airplanes per year, or about 24 aircraft.
However, the Su-47 was almost twice as big as the X-29 and was built more like a full-fledged fighter than an experimental testbed. Despite this, the aircraft never entered production and only one ...
1. Fisher XP-75 Eagle. In the realm of unique concepts, the Fisher XP-75 Eagle takes flight with its distinctive design. Born from a 1943 expectation for a high-climbing, long-range aircraft, the XP-75 was armed with a similar configuration to the single-engine Bell P-39 but fell short of expectations during testing.
The McDonnell XF-85 Goblin is an American prototype fighter aircraft conceived during World War II by McDonnell Aircraft.It was intended to deploy from the bomb bay of the Convair B-36 bomber as a parasite fighter.The XF-85's intended role was to defend bombers from hostile interceptor aircraft, a need demonstrated during World War II.McDonnell built two prototypes before the Air Force (USAF ...
NGAD and CCAs, which will have significantly larger combat radii than current fighter aircraft, were viewed as a way to correct for this huge capability gap, but if the USAF is now moving to build ...
F-20 Tigershark, cheaper F-16 alternative, improved F-5E but canceled after low interest post completing 3 prototypes. The US Air Force and Navy have developed scores of experimental fighter jets that never went into production. Sometimes, the aircraft were just intended as a proof of concept. Other times, they lost to a competitor's design.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) History. First flight. 18 September 2000. The Boeing X-32 is a concept demonstrator aircraft that was designed for the Joint Strike Fighter competition. It lost to the Lockheed Martin X-35 demonstrator, which was further developed into the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II.
Video footage of the Experimental Aircraft Programme technology... Built by ourselves in the 1980s, it was the most advanced fighter aircraft ever built, and brought together technologies never seen before to make it an aircraft which was ahead of its time. It began life in May 1983, when our predecessor company - British Aerospace signed a ...