The Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing is remembered for its unusual wing arrangement and elegant vintage design. This flight ...

For decades, the overall shape of a passenger aircraft has remained largely the same, with a central fuselage flanked by a pair of wings that hold the fuel tanks and, most of the time, the engines. It ...

A Chinese research team has revealed plans for a new 800-passenger flying-wing aircraft design. This proposed aircraft ...

Sonex Aircraft, a company well-regarded for its innovative and affordable aircraft kits, has recently introduced a new high-wing airplane, marking a significant addition to its diverse lineup. This ...

JetZero is working on the subscale BWB aircraft demonstrator, named “Pathfinder,” while Northrop Grumman’s Scaled Composites division is fabricating the full-size airplane and has already produced ...

Over the past ten years or so, American space agency NASA has become a major player in the aviation industry, getting itself involved in all sorts of projects meant to inform the design of the ...

A team of engineers has built and tested a new kind of airplane wing, assembled from hundreds of tiny identical pieces. The wing can change shape to control the plane’s flight, and could provide a ...

Spurred by increasing global demand for air travel, aviation emissions have been rising faster than those from rail, road, or shipping in recent decades. Solutions to invert the trend are ...

On a warm summer morning at Princeton University, aerospace engineer Aimy Wissa was at the university helipad, preparing to fly a remote-controlled plane. But this wasn’t just any model aircraft.

Southern California start-up Natilus has emerged with a blended wing-body aircraft design it believes will upend decades of tube-and-wing dominance in the commercial jet market. Southern California ...

Ask someone to picture an airplane and they’re likely to think of what is essentially a tube with wings and a stabilizing tail tacked onto one end of said tube. Yet it is also no secret that the lift ...