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

The X-29 experimental aircraft, developed during the 1980s, stands as one of the boldest attempts in aviation history to ...

These forward-swept wings and canards, as the mini-wings are called, along with the small horizontal surface behind the main wings (known as a strake) were part of a design that sought to minimize ...

Forward-swept wings have also been made obsolete by thrust ... Similarities in the design and timing of the plane suggest that it may have been directly inspired by the X-29.

The Su-47 is one of two known aircraft built with forward-swept wings. According to The Aviationist, the Su-47 was unexpectedly towed out from storage and placed on a static display, its first ...

Canadian-based Horizon Aircraft, an advanced aerospace engineering company which is currently developing what will become one of the world’s first hybrid eVTOL aircraft, announced on May 15, 2025, ...

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.

As early as the mid-1940s, German designers working on early fighter jets realized that a swept wing was the most efficient design for high ... leading edge came forward, and the left moved ...

A commuter airplane with forward swept wings, its cockpit off to one ... A high-lift, low-drag, straight-wing design, it carries large rotors at the wingtips that spin from the force of air ...

Indeed a variation was proposed, in the 1980s, the standard F-16 design; known as the ... program tinkered with a slew of wing designs. Even a forward-swept wing was considered.