Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Back in January, Boeing flew its fancy new widebody aircraft for ...

The program included a range of technologies focusing on innovative materials and manufacturing processes, including CF3D® to print the spars, long fiber injection molding for ribs, additively ...

While Airbus expects its next narrowbody jet will have a traditional tube-and-wing configuration, it has not abandoned the idea of an eventual blended-wing-body (BWB) design for a larger jet. That is ...

The new SE200 Tri-Wing Jumbo Jet has a very weird design. With its three wings, this new plane looks like it came from a sci-fi movie. However, its unusual appearance is not just for show since ...

Suppose the identical quality that renders a fighter aircraft revolutionary is also the one that keeps it from ever actually flying as a weapon of war. The Sukhoi Su-47 Berkut is a stark case history ...

Lockheed Martin has made a “major breakthrough” in wing structure design for its C-130J Super Hercules aircraft, the company announced Wednesday. After multiple rounds of a “rigorous testing program,” ...

Airplanes don't need their wings to be symmetrical to take to the skies. At first, planes were designed with perpendicular wings to the plane's fuselage because every flying creature in nature ...

The Clean Aviation HERWINGT project is developing a novel, ultra-high performance wing for a hybrid-electric regional aircraft, including thermoplastic composites (TPC) and morphing composite wing ...

NASA worked with Aurora Flight Sciences and the University of Michigan to design, optimize and fabricate this 39-foot subscale wing to assess the performance of steered carbon fiber tows in wing skins ...