The concept of blended-wing aircraft – where fuselage and wing are all one structure – is not new. But this radical design ...

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

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

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) says it's time for some airplanes to drop elevators, flaps and rudders for flight control. DARPA's new X-plane concept will remove these ...

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 ...

China appears to have built a new prototype of a mostly ignored military aircraft; a Wing-in-Ground Effect (WIG) plane. Also commonly known by the Russian word ekranoplan, it's a type of aircraft ...

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’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 ...

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 ...

Cirrus Aircraft recently launched a tool that lets anyone design a Vision Jet or an SR Series plane. It’s called the Configurator, and it can be accessed for free on their website. “What’s really ...

His life is such a mystery that even his real name is uncertain, but his legacy to the world of aviation is clear: Robert Oros di Bartini — as the inscription reads on his tombstone — was a genius ...

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