Stealth aircraft aren’t invisible. They’re engineered to be nearly undetectable — a far more demanding and fascinating ...
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 ...
Natilus unveiled its Horizon Evo, a new dual-deck blended-wing body (BWB) aircraft concept designed for up to 250 passengers, aiming to replace traditional single-aisle narrowbody jets. The revised ...
Joby Aviation. has been granted a patent for a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft featuring an M-wing configuration. The design incorporates propellers on wingtip nacelles and booms, with ...
The C-130 Hercules is one of the most beloved aircraft in military service today. Since the plane was introduced in 1956 as America's next airlifter, military and civilian organizations have found ...
US start-up JetZero continues to progress towards the first flight of a full-scale blended-wing-body demonstrator aircraft by 2027, with the jet having passed the preliminary design review milestone ...
NASA and Boeing are pausing the development of the X-66 full-scale Sustainable Flight Demonstrator. Instead, they will re-focus their efforts on demonstrating the benefits of thin-wing technology.
Horizon Aircraft's Cavorite X7 already sported a radical design, even within the wild world of hybrid eVTOLs. That design has now been updated, however, for enhanced aerodynamics, cruising performance ...
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 ...