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The first X-40A drop test occurred at Holloman AFB, New Mexico on August 11, 1998 at 06:59. It was released from an altitude of approximately 10,000 feet (3,000 m) [2] and 2.5 miles (4.0 km) away from the end of Runway 04 by a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter [1] (later tests used an Army CH-47D Chinook helicopter).
Training glider for yaw-roll coupling Quiet observation aircraft [39] X-27: Lockheed None 1971 high-performance research aircraft. High-performance fighter [40] Proposed development of Lockheed CL-1200 Lancer. Canceled and never flew. X-28 Sea Skimmer: Osprey: USN 1970 Low-cost aerial policing seaplane [41] X-29: Grumman: DARPA, USAF, NASA 1984 ...
The X-44 was designed by Lockheed Martin to demonstrate the feasibility of an aircraft controlled by vectored thrust alone. The X-44 design had a reduced radar signature (due to lack of tail and vertical stabilizers) and was made more efficient by eliminating the tail and rudder surfaces, and instead using thrust vectors to provide yaw, pitch ...
The contract was eventually awarded to Northrop Grumman's proposed naval X-47, thus ending the X-45 program. [11] As of 2007, the software Boeing developed to allow the X-45N to land and takeoff autonomously on aircraft carriers had been installed on the first F/A-18F, which has used it to perform tests of autonomous approaches. All autonomous ...
Additionally, the X-22 was to provide more insight into the tactical application of vertical takeoff troop transporters such as the preceding Hiller X-18 and the X-22's successor, the Bell XV-15. Another program requirement was a true airspeed in level flight of at least 525 km/h (326 mph; 283 knots).
The Douglas XB-42 Mixmaster is an experimental American bomber aircraft, designed for a high top speed.The unconventional approach was to mount the two engines within the fuselage driving a pair of contra-rotating propellers mounted at the tail in a pusher configuration, leaving the wing and fuselage clean and free of drag-inducing protrusions.
A U.S. Navy Photographers Mate photographing an F/A-18 Hornet from the cargo ramp of a C-2 Greyhound. An air-to-air photograph of Air Force One over Mount Rushmore. Air-to-air photography is the art of photographing aircraft in the air, by using another aircraft as a photo platform.
Plan view of the X-36. The X-36 was built to 28% scale of a possible fighter aircraft and was controlled by a pilot in a ground-based virtual cockpit with a view provided by a video camera mounted in the canopy of the aircraft.