NASA engineers deliberately broke a wing — and they were pleased with the result.

NASA researchers recently put a new wing design, long and thin with a lightweight structure, through a series of grueling ...

The Airbus A330neo and Boeing 787-9 were developed using different design philosophies, and the contrast is particularly ...

The race to come up with ways to cut back on fuel consumption in the aviation industry is giving birth to all sorts of wacky designs, in terms of both engines and airframes. One of them is the ...

The new wing design Airbus is testing could be part of its next-generation single-aisle plane, a topic that has come up often ...

Airliners have looked largely the same for a long time now. The ongoing hunt for efficiency gains has seen the development of winglets, drag reducing films, and all manner of little aerodynamic tricks ...

Summary and Key Points: The F-16 SFW (Forward-Swept Wing) was an experimental fighter developed by General Dynamics in the 1970s as part of DARPA’s Forward Swept Wing Program. Designed to reduce drag ...

The manufacturer worked alongside EASA to implement a solution under the airworthiness directive.

Most sixth-gen fighter concepts have been tailless deltas, and China is pursuing that planform, but Boeing's F-47 went a very different direction.