This year the world will be celebrating 120 years since the historic first flight of Orville and Wilbur Wright, an event which marked the start of humanity’s expansion into the skies (and later into ...

More than a century of aviation has given us humans certain preconceptions when it comes to the machines that fly in our sky. Just take the shape of an aircraft into consideration. The simple mention ...

The 1980s marked an era of unconventional thinking in aviation design, giving birth to groundbreaking concepts that aimed to revolutionize commercial air travel. Among these was an aircraft with a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today, aircraft wings are increasingly designed to prioritize stealth characteristics over raw speed—giving them a smooth, unbroken connection to the aircraft’s main fuselage. The wing of a fighter ...

British aviation history is full of planes that people remember for what they could do and how they looked. These planes were ...

A strange helicopter has been making test flights in the south of France. Built by French company Airbus Helicopters, it looks a bit like what would happen if a regular helicopter and an airplane ...

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 ...

This unique blended-wing airliner promises not only to reduce fuel burn and emissions by an enormous 50% - but thanks to a new partnership, it could also be the best chance we've seen to deliver ...

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 ...