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 ...

If you've ever studied older military aircraft like the North American F-86 Sabre jet, you may have noticed that many of them had flat metal plates, known as wing fences, on the wings. While these ...

Chinese engineers are working on a highly unusual aircraft design that traces its roots back to the 1970s. The design is based on the “scissor wing,” also called an oblique rotating wing. Unlike ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – You may one day board a plane where the wings will look very different. Future airplanes are ditching traditional wing design for something sleeker—long, thin wings braced with ...

The Blended Wing Body (BWB) concept represents a transformative shift in aircraft design, merging the wing and fuselage into a single, continuous lifting surface. This integration offers substantial ...

United Airlines (NASDAQ:UAL) aims to be one of the first U.S. commercial carriers to fly passengers on a futuristic blended wing body ("BWB") aircraft, thanks to its investment in startup JetZero, ...

An 18-year-old from Olympia, Washington, has just taken a significant step toward transforming the way we think about aviation. Kevin Shen’s new take on oblique-wing design not only achieves a higher ...

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 ...

You'll notice that some of the world's most powerful military transport planes, such as the Boeing C-17 Globemaster (pictured), have their wings way up top, above the fuselage. This is different from ...

In the next few decades, the standard passenger aircraft will look radically different, according to the head of one of the world’s largest plane manufacturers. Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said in a ...