North American X-10

The North American X-10 was an American unmanned experimental aircraft developed in the early 1950s to test the aerodynamics, guidance and control systems intended for the Navaho intercontinental cruise missile program. Built with a delta-wing configuration and powered by turbojet engines, the X-10 was capable of supersonic flight and, unusually for its time, of taking off and landing on a runway under its own automated guidance rather than being expended on every flight. Although the Navaho missile program it supported was ultimately cancelled, the X-10 flight-test data contributed to later American missile and aircraft guidance technology.