Here’s What You Need to Know: The X-36 was a technology demonstrator, and only two of the rather bizarre looking planes were ever built. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, several experimental ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Somewhat inexplicably, the advanced fighter design was not pursued, despite the overwhelmingly positive test results. Part of this may be due to the costs associated with ...

Most fighter jets you'll see, including the ultra-advanced F-22 Raptor all, have one thing in common: some sort of tail or vertical stabilizer. Tails help stabilize the aircraft in flight, but bombers ...

It looked like something from the future—because it was. The McDonnell Douglas X-36 was a revolutionary stealth fighter prototype, designed to fly without a tail and test the limits of agility and ...