Horizon Aircraft's Cavorite X7 uses fans in the wings to take off vertically, then flies like a normal plane. It even charges ...

The Russian Su-47 “Berkut,” an experimental fighter jet from the late 1990s, featured a distinctive forward-swept wing design ...

Swept wings are nothing new, but one lesser known fact about them is that when it comes to making the wing appear thin to the air, sweeping the wings forward is as good as sweeping them aft.

Developed by a private Russian design bureau, the SR-10 (CP-10) is a single engine, all-composite jet trainer with a (moderate) forward-swept wing. The footage below shows the first flight of SR ...

There’s no airplane quite like the Grumman X-29. Its astonishing forward-swept wings were just one of its many bold innovations. Created at the height of the Cold War by a conglomerate of giants ...

In fact, it was only the third such aircraft with forward-swept wings to actually take to the air—following the Nazi Junkers Ju 287 in 1944 and preceding the HFB-320 Hansa Jet in 1964.

With its unique forward-swept wing, it initially appears as if the X-29 is flying in the opposite direction. However, the same feature that makes it look odd made it outperform other aircraft in ...

and there is an extra set of what look like vestigial wings right behind the pilot. These forward-swept wings and canards, as the mini-wings are called, along with the small horizontal surface ...

One idea was to sweep the wings forward instead of back. The idea was that such a wing would reverse the usual flow over it. Where a conventional back-swept wing has the air flowing from the root ...

since the normal down force of the tail created by having the center of gravity forward of the center of pressure would be minimal, or missing. But, what will happen with the swept -wing version?

There’s no airplane quite like the Grumman X-29. Its astonishing forward-swept wings were just one of its many bold innovations.