New Atlas

Human-scale cardboard aircraft came surprisingly close to real flight

At first glance, a flyable airplane made of cardboard sounds almost like a joke – the sort of thing that collapses long ...
Florida Today

Stratolaunch may test hypersonic rocket aircraft based in California's Mojave Desert

Stratolaunch may conduct another hypersonic test flight this weekend from California's Mojave Air & Space Port. The flights are part of a Department of Defense program to test advanced capabilities ...
New Atlas

Anduril's pilotless fighter jet completes its first test flight

A few days ago, California-based defense tech firm Anduril concluded the first test flights of its semi-autonomous Fury fighter jet without a pilot in the cockpit. Oh wait, there's actually no cockpit ...
Flightglobal

General Atomics YFQ-42A logs first flight in Collaborative Combat Aircraft effort

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) has completed the first flight with its new YFQ-42A Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) prototype, a significant milestone in the US Air Force’s (USAF’s) ...
Aviation Week

Second B-21 Enters Flight Test In Palmdale

A second B-21 Raider test aircraft takes off on Sept. 11, 2025, from Palmdale, California, to join the Air Force’s flight-test campaign at Edwards AFB, California. Credit: U.S. Air Force The B-21 ...
Wall Street Journal

Can These Self-Flying Planes Transform the Skies?

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—“Aircraft should fly themselves!” is scrawled on a whiteboard at Reliable Robotics’ offices here. Recently two staff members watching on monitors tracked the flight path of a ...