Not many aircraft can claim to be truly one of a kind, but the NASA AD-1 is undoubtedly one of them. A slim pointed cigar with a single wing that pivoted around a central point, which led to a jarring ...
On December 21, 1979, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) AD-1 Oblique Wing Research Aircraft (OWRA) took off from the main runway at Edwards Air Force Base (AFB), CA, for a ...
Can Northrop build an oblique flying wing X-plane and revolutionise the design of long-range strike aircraft? DARPA has given it a chance to find out An aircraft that can loiter like a Global Hawk, ...
Northrop Grumman hopes to fly the first supersonic oblique flying-wing aircraft by 2010-11 under a US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) programme. The company has received a $10.3 ...
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