Foldable wings have played an obscure part in aviation since its earliest days when the Wright brothers used pulleys and levers to twist the trailing edges of wings. However, as planes got more ...

To maximize a plane's efficiency over a broader range of flight speeds, Penn State engineers have developed a concept for morphing airplane wings that change shape like a bird's and are covered with a ...

Growing up in Gwinnett County, Andrew Marion developed an early fascination with airplanes, from dreams of flying them to ...

For more than a century now, humanity has had the ability to take to the sky. The aviation industry, one of the most dynamic of any field of human activity, has progressed greatly during this time, ...

A team of engineers has built and tested a new kind of airplane wing, assembled from hundreds of tiny identical pieces. The wing can change shape to control the plane’s flight, and could provide a ...

Airbus has launched a new program to accelerate and validate technologies that will improve wing aerodynamics and performance for future aircraft. This scaled demonstration will integrate and test ...

The basic design of commercial airplanes hasn’t changed much in the past 60 years. Modern airliners like the Boeing 787 and the Airbus A350 have the same general shape as the Boeing 707 and the ...

Having a home near a busy airport certainly has its perks. It is close to many establishments and alleviates the problem of wading through endless traffic to catch flights. But it does come at a cost ...

Although an airliner's engines may be quite loud on takeoff, its wings also create a lot of wind noise when it's landing. According to a new study, the latter problem could be addressed with the ...

Inspired by the Portulaca oleracea seedcoat, metamaterials fabricated by laser powder bed fusion realized tunable in-plane mechanical properties, large deformation recovery capability and functional ...