Horizon Aircraft's Cavorite X7 already sported a radical design, even within the wild world of hybrid eVTOLs. That design has now been updated, however, for enhanced aerodynamics, cruising performance ...

The W17 not only features a different mounting location for the front wing, creating a channel under the nose, it has just ...

Airliners have looked largely the same for a long time now. The ongoing hunt for efficiency gains has seen the development of winglets, drag reducing films, and all manner of little aerodynamic tricks ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blended wing aircraft could slash carbon emissions. This rendering shows a design by California-based JetZero, which aims to have ...

The aircraft is particularly susceptible to wing contamination during icy conditions.

Tiny flying robots have always faced a brutal trade-off between agility and battery life, burning through power just to stay aloft. A new wing architecture inspired by grasshoppers promises to ease ...

DARPA's X-65, that replaces conventional aircraft flight controls with puffs of air, is coming together at Boeing subsidiary Aurora’s Bridgeport, West Virginia facility. The fuselage is taking shape ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A startup planemaker announced a 200-passenger "blended wing body" plane to rival Airbus and Boeing. Natilus' design aims to ...

The upcoming test campaign at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) is the culmination of the program that included ...

Today, aircraft wings are increasingly designed to prioritize stealth characteristics over raw speed—giving them a smooth, unbroken connection to the aircraft’s main fuselage. The wing of a fighter ...

A team of NASA researchers successfully performed a high-speed taxi test that could help ...