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 ...

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 ...

Making the wings on passenger jets thinner and longer can go a long way toward reducing drag and making them more efficient, but they vibrate like crazy. Engineers at NASA and Boeing are now tackling ...

Boeing completed the ultimate load test on the static test 787 airframe, ZY997, at Everett on March 28. The test — officially dubbed Condition 18b — evaluated the ability of the wing-body structure to ...

Boeing and NASA are completing a series of wind tunnel tests in the National Transonic Facility at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. The experiments are designed to validate the high-lift flap ...