Russia's SR-10 forward-swept-wing jet trainer showed strong performance but lost funding and competition, ending as a ...

The experimental Su-47 Russian demonstrator fighter jet was somewhat of a short-lived demonstrator, yet numerous public accounts suggest that its innovations propelled development of the country's two ...

During the late years of the Cold War, the US Air Force and NASA wanted to study new aerodynamic concepts and advanced flight-control systems for the design and development of future aircraft. To ...

The winner-take-all nature of aerial combat means the slightest edge can be the difference between victory and death. Power, maneuverability, agility, armor, and armament were all key components of a ...

Credit: NASA/Christopher LC Clark NASA is poised to begin flight tests of a representative stub wing section that is aimed at dramatically enhancing the drag-reducing benefits of natural laminar flow ...