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

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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, ...

The Grumman X-29 was one of the most visually striking and unconventional aircraft ever flown by the U.S., featuring forward-swept wings that gave ... systems. Its design pushed materials science ...

Aurora Flight Sciences has finished windtunnel testing an experimental fan-in-wing design for a Pentagon X-plane competition. The Boeing subsidiary says it recently wrapped up stability and ...

By Robin Pogrebin The metaphor of weaving has informed Frida Escobedo’s design ... to move forward or to change directions. There is a lot of freedom to the way she’s designed the wing.” ...

The familiarity sprang from the fact that the designers saved money by basing the design on an F-5 Freedom ... Why More Aircraft Don't Have Forward Swept Wings In many ways the X-29 was a great ...

The MiG-17’s rugged design also meant it could endure significant damage ... who flew these machines under the most challenging conditions. More from us: Forward-Swept Wings Gave the Sukhoi Su-47 ...

The Russian Sukhoi Su-47 Berkut, with its forward-swept wings, was intended to be a leap forward, merging speed, agility and stealth into a design that seemed borrowed from the pages of a sci-fi book.

Aiming at the problem of the existing variable swept-back wings encroach on the belly space. Based on the principles of mechanism and bionics, this paper innovatively puts forward a design scheme of ...

The X-29 was the third forward-swept wing jet-powered aircraft design to fly; the other two were the Luftwaffe’s Junkers Ju 287 jet bomber (1944) and the HFB-320 Hansa Jet aka the “German ...