List of aircraft produced by a number of countries to test new concepts and technology
A group of 1950s NACA research aircraft As used here, an experimental or research and development aircraft , sometimes also called an X-plane , is one which is designed or substantially adapted to investigate novel flight technologies.[1] [2] [3]
Argentina
Australia GAF Pika – manned test craft for drone program
Brazil
Canada Canadair CL-84 Dynavert tilt-wing VTOL research aircraft
France Breguet-Dorand Gyroplane Laboratoire SNECMA Coléoptère experimental tailsitter in 1959
Germany Dornier Do 29 tilt rotor STOL Heinkel He 178 pioneering turbojet-powered aircraft Opel RAK.1 rocket engine research aircraft
Italy Caproni-Campini N.1/CC.2 experimental motorjet and second jet aircraft to fly
Poland
Japan Gasuden Koken
Russia/Soviet Union Antonov A-40 tank glider Bartini Beriev VVA-14 EkranoplanYakovlev Yak-36 VTOL research vehicle
Spain Cierva C.6 autogiro
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom Avro 707 research aircraft in formation with Avro Vulcan bomber prototypesFairey Delta 2 research aircraft Gloster E.28/39 jet engine research aircraft Miles M.35 Libellula canard research aircraft Rolls-Royce thrust measuring rig VTOL testbed
United States Bell X-1 supersonic research aircraft Bell X-5 variable-sweep wing testbed North American X-15 hypersonic rocket-powered research aircraft
X-planes Grumman X-29 forward swept wing and stability research aircraft
Other experimental types US Army Bell 533 high speed helicopter research aircraft XFV-12A on ramp at NAA in Columbus, OhioScaled Composites Proteus in flight during 2002 for US Department of Energy ARM-UAV programLockheed Vega Winnie Mae high-altitude research aircraft – confirmed existence of jet streamLifting body research aircraft – from left to right, X-24A, M2-F3 and HL-10 Northrop N-9M flying wing Vought V-173 disk wing research aircraft
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References Wikimedia Commons has media related to Experimental aircraft .
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