With the ventral fairing barely visible under the forward fuselage, Northrop Grumman’s Stargazer performed a low fly-past before departing Mojave. Credit: Mark Wagner/Aviation-Images Aviation Week was ...

Saudi Arabia's civil aviation administration believes a failure to follow safety procedures during the disassembly of a Lockheed L-1011 aircraft resulted in an explosion which killed four workers. The ...

NASA has an audacious plan to save a space telescope by using a rocket launched midair from a former passenger airliner.

Almost 28 years after pioneering the use of nonmilitary air launch for commercial spacecraft with the Pegasus rocket, Northrop Grumman’s one-of-a-kind Lockheed L-1011 TriStar is on the verge of a new ...

Today’scommercial aircraft market is defined by a handful of manufacturers. Boeing and Airbus dominate the narrowbody and widebody sectors, while regional players such as Embraer, Bombardier, and ATR ...

In December of 1972, a nearly new Lockheed L-1011 aircraft (Eastern Flight 401) descended into the Florida everglades killing 101 souls because the crew was distracted with fixing a burned-out landing ...

Northrop Grumman’s L-1011 aircraft, Stargazer, prepares for takeoff at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Skid Strip in Florida on Oct. 10, 2019. Attached beneath the aircraft is the company’s ...

NASA plans the launch of the Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) satellite Wednesday from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. But the rocket won't be launching from one of the dozens ...

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) announced it is prepared to launch the company’s air-launched Pegasus® XL rocket aboard its Stargazer L-1011 airplane from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on ...

Northrop Grumman's Pegasus XL rocket, seen here attached to its L-1011 aircraft, has suffered technical problems that has delayed the launch of a NASA satellite until the second quarter of 2019.

A Pegasus XL rocket is dropped from an L-1011 aircraft on January 25, 2003 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Photo by Jeff Caplan / Langley Research / NASA / Getty Images Imagine this scenario: you have an ...