The X-51A Waverider is set to demonstrate hypersonic flight. Powered by a Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne SJY61 scramjet engine, it is designed to ride on its own shockwave and accelerate to about Mach 6.

The Atsuta Model 20 and 30 series engines were the only liquid-cooled engines used operationally by the Japanese Naval Air Force. Between 1943 and 1945, the Japanese built 873 Atsuta 20 series engines ...

Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise were meant to be the third Apollo crew to journey to the Moon on a lunar landing mission. On April 11, 1970, the Apollo 13 astronauts launched from Kennedy ...

When naval air strategists had crafted the requirements for the new fighter, the need for speed had overridden all other performance goals. With this in mind, the Bureau of Aeronautics selected the ...

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is the most significant recent advance in navigation and positioning technology. In the past, the stars were used for navigation. Today's world requires greater ...

The X-wing was then uncrated in the Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar, where it sat partially-assembled among other iconic craft in the history of aviation and space, including the Martin B-26 ...

Unfortunately, with the airships’ huge size came massive maintenance and refueling expenses, not to mention ground crews the size of small armies to handle landings and moorings. Safety became a ...

These sunglasses were part of the survival rucksack flown on the Apollo 15 mission in July 1971. They are made of ultra-violet filtering plastic and yellow coated nylon. An elastic and velcro strap ...

This device was proposed to NASA as an emergency system, which would help astronauts navigate through space in the event of a malfunction of the primary navigation system. The device used a plastic ...

Gilmore the Flying Lion was the pet of the flamboyant air racer and aerial showman Col. Roscoe Turner. In early 1930, Turner received a major sponsorship from the Gilmore Oil Company, well-known for ...

With a thrust of 25 metric tons (56,600 lb.), the V-2 rocket engine was the first large liquid-fuel rocket engine in the world, and greatly influenced rocket development in the USA, the USSR, France ...

For long distance overseas flight, the flying boat was the obvious solution. As most of the world’s major cities lie along coastlines and have port facilities, expensive conventional airfields were ...