A video for the 80th anniversary of the Skunk Works shows, through renderings and sketches, the past, the present and the future of the secretive division of Lockheed Martin. To celebrate 80 years of ...

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 ...

Today, aircraft wings are increasingly designed to prioritize stealth characteristics over raw speed—giving them a smooth, unbroken connection to the aircraft’s main fuselage.

The Pacific Ocean is vast, and when it comes to planning for how to fight a war in and across it, the United States is turning to a new airframe design—one that promises more efficient flight. In an ...

International Light Aircraft Design Competition is one of the Society’s flagship international competitions. It gives students and early-career professionals the opportunity to design a light aircraft ...

On May 18, the US Air Force issued a classified solicitation to industry requesting proposals for its Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) aircraft. The aircraft is described by service officials as a ...

The V-280 Valor performs a flight demonstration in Arlington, Texas, Oct. 28, 2020. (Luke J. Allen/U.S. Army) The service has had “unprecedented access to the design [in] real time” of FLRAA through ...

NASA isn't just considering a futuristic plane on Mars. It's developing the future of your commercial planes, too. The space agency's Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project — intended to slash the ...

The X-62 took off from Edwards AFB on May 25 with the digital model of the Fury loaded into its unique simulation system. Credit: Giancarlo Casem/U.S. Air Force An autonomous aircraft named the Fury, ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Airbus on Tuesday unveiled a curvaceous aircraft design that blends wing and body, designed to slash carbon emissions by some 20%. The European planemaker has been carrying out ...