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

Swept back wings are a common design among all aircraft these days, but for fighter jets in particular, wings trending to the ...

Key factors that affect airplane takeoff speed (sometimes referred to as its rotation speed) include: direction of airflow, the airplane’s shape ... the wings generates enough lift to offset ...

enabling the plane to cruise at higher altitudes in thinner air on less fuel. It contributes much more lift than a typical tube shape, so you don't need as much wing surface. And it is much more ...

According to the US Air Force, the all-in-one wing reduces drag by 30% and increases lift ... Pathfinder's unique shape. For example, he told BI the pressurization inside the plane — which ...

enabling the plane to cruise at higher altitudes in thinner air on less fuel. It contributes much more lift than a typical tube shape, so you don't need as much wing surface. And it is much more ...

The purported virtue of the elliptical wing was that, theoretically at least, it would generate the least possible lift-dependent ... The variety of airplane shapes offers a lesson.

(CNN) — The basic design of commercial airplanes hasn’t changed much in the past 60 years. Modern airliners like the Boeing 787 and the Airbus A350 have the same general shape as the Boeing ...

A Boeing 787 jet identical to the one that crashed in India made four emergency landings in less than a month earlier this ...