What role will F-15 jets play in the future of supersonic flight?

NASA Armstrong adds two retired F-15 jets to support supersonic research for the X-59, enabling high-altitude flights and experimental data collection.

An important part of data collection for the United States space program, the North American X-15 had astonishing performance utilizing the technology of the 1950s and 60s. The North American X-15 was ...

Two F-15Ds of the Oregon Air National Guard have been transferred to NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center, where they will join the ones already operated by the agency. NASA has announced on Jan.

The North American X-15 was built to flirt with the edge of space, not to cross it by accident. Yet on a research mission labeled Flight 90, a routine test profile slipped just far enough out of ...