LAS VEGAS — A novel passenger jet could take to the skies in the next five years that has a completely different shape than ...

As a result, we are often reduced to guessing why wings—and entire airplanes—are shaped the way they are. Every airplane is a collision between the ideal and the practical. Arrayed against the ...

Despite these advantages, JetZero faces several serious obstacles in developing its blended wing aircraft. The most ...

The exact airfoil shape of a wing has a massive effect on the performance and efficiency of an aircraft and will be selected based on the intended flight envelope. If you’re moving beyond foam ...

The triplane will forever be remembered as an icon of early aviation—thanks in large part to Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von ...

The future of commercial aviation could be taking shape inside a hangar next to Long Beach Airport. This is where Long Beach ...

Whether they’re opening for takeoff, spreading wide for a lazy soar or flapping to brake for landing, bird wings make flying ...

DARPA calls the experimental airplane X-65, and considers it a technology ... the X-65 will be built with a diamond-like wing shape (there are actually four wings with varying sweep angles ...

An entirely new aircraft shape has been cleared to take off into California skies. At the end of last month, Long Beach-based JetZero announced that Pathfinder, its 1:8 scale "blended wing body ...

Not many aircraft can claim to be truly one of ... This design could take the form of a delta wing – a triangular shape used by Concorde, among others – or simply a swept wing, at an angle ...