X-40A technology demonstrator has third successful free-flight test

The X-40A demonstrator vehicle successfully performed a third free-flight test on April 26 at Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, Calif., NASA announced. As was done on two previous tests, the unpowered X-40A was lifted by an Army Chinook helicopter to around 15,000 feet and released. In the...

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