The X-40A provided valuable approach and landing data for the 120-percent scale X-37A vehicle that would later make its own drop tests at Dryden. Those tests paved the way for the X-37B Orbital ...

But we can almost guarantee you've never seen a 1927 Bugatti Type 37A hooked up to a dyno before. Thanks to this feature-film-length YouTube video by PFI Speed, however, that's about to change.

This model, operational since 2010 after tests with the earlier X-37A variant, has conducted several classified missions in ...