To this day, no other air force has ever successfully produced a crewed aircraft with a tailless, flying wing airframe. On top of that, no other nation has successfully fielded a 5th-generation ...

The future of aviation could look surprisingly similar to the triangular paper airplanes you folded as a kid. In an interview with Tobias Fuchs and Martin Murphy at the German newspaper Bild, Airbus ...

Northrop Grumman has built the experimental XRQ-73 hybrid-electric flying-wing that it has been developing under a secretive US military project. Northrop Grumman is confirming it has built the ...

Aurora Flight Sciences and DARPA hope to see the X-65 drone fly next year after suffering delays and cost growth.

Designed by Northrop Grumman and subsidiary Scaled Composites, the unmanned XRQ-73 features an ultra-quiet propulsion system powered by electricity from a gas turbine. Taking off from Edwards Air ...

A US startup wants to lure customers with lucrative cargo space unavailable on today's narrowbodies.Natlius Airbus' CEO recently said the future of flying is a B2-bomber-shaped "blended-wing body" ...

JetZero, a developer of blended-wing body (BWB) aircraft, recently secured $175 million in Series B funding, bringing its total funding and commitments to over $1 billion. Major partners and investors ...

Aircraft are fundamentally a weird thing, and only a commonplace sight to (some of) those born in the last hundred years. But overexposure to the Boeing and Airbus aircraft we see flying over every ...

SINGAPORE—Chinese state media on Dec. 15 announced that the Cai Hong-7 (CH-7) stealthy uncrewed aircraft system made by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. (CASC) completed its first flight ...

Together, the adaptive control algorithm and pressure reconstruction enable morphAIR to truly “feel” and “think” about how it is flying. That's as close to real bird adaptability as aircraft wings ...

AURORA, Colorado—Anduril’s drone wingman started armed flight testing this month, marking the next major milestone for the Air Force’s collaborative combat aircraft program. The Air Force began ...