Ever since the dawn of aviation many years ago aircraft have established themselves as fixed-wing machines capable of taking to the sky. Why winged? Well, for the simple reason that such a design is ...

Click to open image viewer. This M2-F2 Lifting Body model of unknown scale was given to Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, Deputy Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from 1958 until ...

The X-24B Lifting Body Paved the Way for the Space Shuttle – In the collection of the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (AFB), Dayton, Ohio, is a ...

Steve Austin, the bionic character on the television show "The Six Million Dollar Man," was largely based on someone born in North Dakota. Bruce Peterson was an experienced NASA research pilot who was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aurora Flight Sciences is developing a fan-in-wing blended wing body aircraft concept as part of a U.S. military program exploring ...