The Northrop X-4 Bantam was a semi-tailless research aircraft developed to study the complex aerodynamic challenges of the transonic flight regime. Its unique design eliminated the horizontal ...

The Northrop X-4 Bantam had a tendency to pitch nose-down at high speeds—generally not a desirable condition for a plane.

On this day in aviation history, December 15, 1948, the small, white, tailless airplane rose from the Rogers Dry Lakebed into the desert skies of California. It was the Northrop X-4 Bantam, the fourth ...

Unlike her avian namesake, the X-4 Bantam could fly high, far, and fast. She actually drew her inspiration from a former WWII nemesis, namely Nazi Germany’s Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet, which was the ...

Nothing did more to accelerate the development of aviation in the 20th century than World War II. By the time the conflict was over in 1945, the fighters that first tangled five years previously were ...

The Kruger National Park (KNP) is home to between 9,000 and 12,000 white rhinos - more than 60% of South Africa's entire white rhino population - as well as between 580 and 650 of the highly ...

Giyani - The Kruger National Park has taken the fight against rhino poaching to the skies. Managing executive for the park, Abe Sibiya, officially handed over a bantam aircraft in Shingwedzi camp in ...