More than a century of aviation has given us humans certain preconceptions when it comes to the machines that fly in our sky. Just take the shape of an aircraft into consideration. The simple mention ...

The Blended Wing Body (BWB) concept represents a transformative shift in aircraft design, merging the wing and fuselage into a single, continuous lifting surface. This integration offers substantial ...

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 latest generation of experimental aircraft is no longer chasing raw speed alone, it is trying to change how the air ...

At the root of the wingtip extension, a semi-aeroelastic hinge is triggered in cases of strong turbulence. Credit: Airbus/Fixion/Dreamstime/MMS One of the principles ...

In mid-2025 the aviation world marked a milestone in aerodynamics and avionics interaction. While most headlines focus on new engines, emissions, or avionics suites, NASA and Boeing made public plans ...

Like everything else around us, aviation is changing too, and it does so at a rapid pace. From new ways to power the planes to new and more efficient shapes of airplanes' bodies, the biggest players ...

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Maturation of an all-new wing designed to deliver a 50% fuel-burn reduction as part of a future hybrid-electric regional aircraft could take place in the second half of the decade if a project led by ...

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company’s Advanced Development Programs sector is proposing a morphing wing design that can be locked into either an expanded or contracted position. Key to enabling this ...