The World’s First Vertical Takeoff Jet – X-13 Vertijet Trump’s shutdown win just landed Republicans with a huge political ...

Rare Smithsonian artifacts are on display at museums across the country. Mark Strauss This SR-10F Reliant, one of only 18 of this model, participated in airmail pick-up experiments for All American ...

The United States, Germany, and France have experimented with tail-sitter aircraft. Designed to have vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) capabilities, these aircraft did not make it past the ...

Rare Smithsonian artifacts are on display at museums across the country. Aviation and space travel are boundless frontiers that beckon us to go faster, higher, and further than those who came before.

A favorite dream of airplane designers is a VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) that will leap into the air like a helicopter, fly as fast as a jet interceptor, and land vertically. Helicopters ...

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Thankfully, aviation buffs have plenty of genuinely beautiful aircraft to admire. Consider the Supermarine Spitfire of WW2, which inspired Pilot Officer ...

The X-13 was developed in the 1950s, at a time when aerospace research was perhaps at its most fervent. The Ryan X-13 Vertijet was an experimental aircraft built to test vertical takeoffs and landings ...

On October 14, 1947, a B-29 Superfortress bomber took off with a small, dart-shaped, rocket-powered aircraft called the Bell X-1 slung under its belly, nestled partway into its bomb bay. Air Force ...

Learn the secrets behind the Ryan X-13 Vertijet, the Dragonfly, or the HL-10. In a little over a century, the aviation industry has gone from learning to fly to learning to fly faster, to learning to ...

A long-term dream of airplane designers, the jet-powered vertical take-off plane, became an official reality last week. The Air Force announced that Ryan Aeronautical Co. has test-flown successfully ...

A Bell Boeing CV-22 Osprey of the US Air Force (USAF) has crashed in Japanese waters. On 29 November US Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) said the CV-22B Osprey from the 353rd Special ...