Aircraft wings have changed drastically throughout the years, with efficiency now a key factor in designs.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA and Boeing are pausing the development of the X-66 full-scale Sustainable Flight Demonstrator. Instead, they will re-focus ...

Horizon Aircraft's Cavorite X7 already sported a radical design, even within the wild world of hybrid eVTOLs. That design has now been updated, however, for enhanced aerodynamics, cruising performance ...

Aviation is not about traveling from one place to another. It is about the airplanes themselves. From the flying machines to ...

Today, aircraft wings are increasingly designed to prioritize stealth characteristics over raw speed—giving them a smooth, unbroken connection to the aircraft’s main fuselage. The wing of a fighter ...

The Rotor Blown Wing is a hybrid-electric, fully autonomous flying wing aircraft. Credit: Sikorsky NASHVILLE—Sikorsky plans to fly a Group 3 design of its Rotor Blown Wing next month as the company ...

Over the past ten years or so, American space agency NASA has become a major player in the aviation industry, getting itself involved in all sorts of projects meant to inform the design of the ...

The iconic X-wing ship design from Star Wars is something many a hobbyist have tried to recreate, and not always with success. While [German engineer] succeeded in re-imagining an FPV quadcopter as an ...

US start-up JetZero continues to progress towards the first flight of a full-scale blended-wing-body (BWB) demonstrator aircraft by 2027, with the jet having passed the preliminary design review (PDR) ...

The global aviation industry faces a projected shortfall of over 17,000 commercial aircraft deliveries in the next two decades, creating a market opportunity for alternative designs. Blended-wing body ...

United Airlines (NASDAQ:UAL) aims to be one of the first U.S. commercial carriers to fly passengers on a futuristic blended wing body ("BWB") aircraft, thanks to its investment in startup JetZero, ...

While all eyes have been on the astounding Artemis II mission that sent humans back to the moon, NASA has been working on ...