Tiny flying robots have always faced a brutal trade-off between agility and battery life, burning through power just to stay ...

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

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 ...

The program included a range of technologies focusing on innovative materials and manufacturing processes, including CF3D® to print the spars, long fiber injection molding for ribs, additively ...

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 ...

A C-130J Super Hercules is seen at Lockheed Martin’s Marietta headquarters. The C-130J Super Hercules wing structure undergoes extreme testing, successfully withstanding 125% of its maximum design ...