At some point in everyone’s life—usually during a particularly dull moment in third grade—a plain white piece of paper inspires a certain degree of aerial imagination. Transforming this thin white ...

Imagine a cargo plane so big, it could carry nearly 200 cargo containers, including 20 in each wing. The Pelican Super Transport was Boeing's intended answer to the Navy's need to transport massive ...

This plane looks like it was inspired by a prostrate frog. The X-36 was an unmanned craft built to showcase a sort of tailless fighter jet that would be especially maneuverable in the air. Without the ...

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The X-5 could sweep its wings. Image: Wikimedia Commons The Bell X-5 is a pretty neat one—it looks mostly normal, perhaps even more than the X-57 Maxwell—but when it’s in the air, things change. The ...