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Experimental aircraft. A LTV XC-142 experimental V/STOL aircraft. An experimental aircraft is an aircraft intended for testing new aerospace technologies and design concepts. The term research aircraft or testbed aircraft, by contrast, generally denotes aircraft modified to perform scientific studies, such as weather research or geophysical ...
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-planes; some received US Navy designations before 1962, [1] while others have been known only by manufacturers' designations, [N 1] non-'X'-series designations, [N 2 ...
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.
The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) is an international organization of aviation enthusiasts based in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Since its inception, it has grown internationally with over 300,000 [3] members [4] and nearly 1,000 chapters worldwide. It hosts the largest aviation gathering of its kind in the world, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh.
The Grumman X-29 is an American experimental aircraft that tested a forward-swept wing, canard control surfaces, and other novel aircraft technologies. Funded by NASA, the United States Air Force and DARPA, the X-29 was developed by Grumman, and the two built were flown by NASA and the United States Air Force. [1]
December 1968 [ 1 ] The North American X-15 is a hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft operated by the United States Air Force and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the X-plane series of experimental aircraft.
NASA AD-1. The NASA AD-1 is both an aircraft and an associated flight test program conducted between 1979 and 1982 at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards California, which successfully demonstrated an aircraft wing that could be pivoted obliquely from zero to 60 degrees during flight. The unique oblique wing was demonstrated on a ...
Rotor Propeller. Patented a design for a steam-powered “flying machine” (1889, and refined in 1891); [ 131 ] successful track-tethered test of a steam-engine powered biplane (Jul 1894); [ 132 ] designed and constructed a biplane that never flew (1910) [ 133 ] John Alexander Douglas McCurdy. 2 Aug 1886 25 Jun 1961.