Key Points: Clearer photos of China's Shenyang J-50 sixth-generation fighter concept, first seen in December 2024, show a tailless, twin-engine, lambda-wing design with features like 2D thrust ...
The Air Force’s—and NASA’s—motivation behind the X-44 Manta project, starting in 1999, was to test the feasibility of full yaw, pitch and roll authority without tailplanes (horizontal or vertical), ...