WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 125 million years before the Wright brothers embraced a similar design, a small feathered dinosaur took to the air with a biplane wing arrangement enabling it to glide ...

The Boeing 777X is set to revolutionize long-haul air travel when it eventually enters commercial service in 2027. The US manufacturer's latest version of its incredibly popular Boeing 777 family will ...

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 ...

Experience the future of flight with the Horten HX-2, a unique flying wing aircraft from Horten Aircraft. This video explores its innovative integrated wing design, rear-mounted propeller, and ...

More than a century of aviation has given us humans certain preconceptions when it comes to the machines that fly in our sky. Just take the shape of an aircraft into consideration. The simple mention ...

Turbulence is a common, and often harmless, part of air travel. It is caused by irregular airflow in the atmosphere and ...

American space agency NASA and aircraft maker Boeing have been researching longer and thinner wing designs, they are now ...

Early aviation featured both monoplanes, which offered aerodynamic advantages with thick cantilever wings (pioneered by Junkers), and biplanes. Biplanes became dominant due to practical benefits such ...

NASA and Boeing are pausing the development of the X-66 full-scale Sustainable Flight Demonstrator. Instead, they will re-focus their efforts on demonstrating the benefits of thin-wing technology.

A strange helicopter has been making test flights in the south of France. Built by French company Airbus Helicopters, it looks a bit like what would happen if a regular helicopter and an airplane ...

Luminary Cloud has launched Shift-Wing, an AI-powered model and dataset designed to accelerate the conceptual design of advanced aircraft wings, from subsonic all the way up to transonic speeds. The ...