Airplanes don't need their wings to be symmetrical to take to the skies. At first, planes were designed with perpendicular wings to the plane's fuselage because every flying creature in nature ...

The Breakthrough Laminar Aircraft Demonstrator in Europe (BLADE) project is part of the Clean Sky Smart Fixed Wing Aircraft (SWFA) programme, an extensive, 50% European Union-funded, multi-partner ...

Led by Airbus subsidiary and technology incubator UpNext (Madrid, Spain), the eXtra Performance Wing project, an initiative aimed at redefining aircraft wing technology to enhance flight performance ...

While Airbus expects its next narrowbody jet will have a traditional tube-and-wing configuration, it has not abandoned the idea of an eventual blended-wing-body (BWB) design for a larger jet. That is ...

Long, narrow wings are intended to reduce fuel consumption and increase comfort in aircraft. However, wing flutter must be eliminated for this to happen. The US space agency NASA and the aircraft ...

Lockheed Martin has made a “major breakthrough” in wing structure design for its C-130J Super Hercules aircraft, the company announced Wednesday. After multiple rounds of a “rigorous testing program,” ...

Engineers are closing in on a long imagined goal in aviation, wings that can subtly change shape in midair instead of relying ...

Convertible VTOL aircraft are revolutionizing aviation, and tilt-wings are by far the most safe and efficient convertible VTOL aircraft. However, sometimes we come across the misperception that ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has followed the lead of the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), which is the technical agent for Airbus and other European aircraft manufacturers, ...