Researchers at the University of Surrey have proposed a computational approach that can provide aerodynamic drag data more ...

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The AltoVolo Sigma hybrid-electric aircraft flies 500 miles at 220 mph while operating 80% quieter than helicopters, featuring safety systems and compact design.

Step inside today’s airplane cabin, it’s less travel hub, more cozy retreat. Speed drives how fast interiors change, pushing ...

LOS ANGELES - Meet the U.S. military’s new plane that might revolutionize how aircraft are designed. In January, Aurora Flight Sciences, a subsidiary of Boeing, announced that it has begun ...

A Seattle-area startup called Radian Aerospace is fine-tuning the design of its orbital space plane, with an eye toward building a subscale prototype as early as this year. The company is also in the ...

Italy once built a plane that looked more like a trash can than a fighter jet. But the Stipa-Caproni wasn’t just weird - it ...

A video for the 80th anniversary of the Skunk Works shows, through renderings and sketches, the past, the present and the future of the secretive division of Lockheed Martin. To celebrate 80 years of ...

There were no casualties aboard the Delta flight that crashed and flipped upside down at the Toronto airport on Monday evening, which experts attribute to modern plane safety design. Investigation ...

The next time you board a commercial flight and are told how to sit in the brace position for an emergency landing, consider ...

There’s a global energy crisis and onshore wind farms are a potential growth option. Larger wind turbines produce more power than standard ones, but the components are too big to be transported by ...