Goal is to develop and fly a demonstrator aircraft without using external mechanical flight controls Note: The following is a…
Background This sampling of newly released saucer-type aircraft documents contain detailed technical data and drawings related to the work undertaken…
The X-20 Dyna-Soar ("Dynamic Soarer") was a United States Air Force (USAF) program to develop a spaceplane that could be…
Background The Bell X-5 was the first aircraft capable of changing the sweep of its wings in flight. It was…
Background Project Silver Bug was the American "Black" project version of the Avro Aircraft Canada Y-2 undertaken by the United…
Introduction The NASA AD-1 was both an aircraft and an associated flight test program conducted between 1979 and 1982 at…
The VZ-9-AV Avrocar (official designation but often listed as VZ-9) was a Canadian VTOL aircraft developed by Avro Aircraft Ltd.…