As the first major piloted NASA X-plane to fly in a generation and the first crewed, purpose-built U.S. high-speed research aircraft since the X-15 of the 1960s, the X-59 low-boom demonstrator is the ...

Fire trucks responded to a plane at Ellington Airport on Tuesday. The aircraft appears to be a NASA plane used for high-altitude research. We are gathering information on what happened. HOUSTON - A ...

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Randy Rolston has identified a new search area in the Indian Ocean for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which vanished 12 years ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A research aircraft for NASA was forced to make a belly landing at Ellington Airport in Houston, Texas the morning of Jan. 27. The ...

HOUSTON — A NASA research aircraft made a gear-up landing at Ellington Airport late Tuesday morning after experiencing a mechanical issue, according to NASA. Cellphone video shared with KHOU 11 shows ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- First responders are at Ellington Field Airport after a video showed the moment an aircraft landed belly down, causing massive sparks along the runway on Tuesday afternoon, according ...

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