If you've ever seen a military jet fighter in person, you may have noticed that the wings have a distinctive shape to them, angling downward from the fuselage to their tips. These are known as swept ...

The experimental Su-47 Russian demonstrator fighter jet was somewhat of a short-lived demonstrator, yet numerous public accounts suggest that its innovations propelled development of the country's two ...

But the variable-sweep wing design seems to have gone out of fashion most recently. As the name suggests, “variable-sweep” wings are aircraft wings that can be adjusted to different degrees of ...