Why the X-36 deserves a place in aviation history: In the collection of the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (AFB), located outside Dayton ...

Like the Bird of Prey, the X-36 program wasn’t about fielding a new stealth aircraft for combat, so much as for maturing the technologies that may eventually find their way there. Today’s ...

In further research of tailless aircraft for a fighter role, NASA experimented with the Boeing X-36, an aircraft that at least on the surface, shares a lot of visual cues with modern jets.