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

(Bloomberg) -- U.S. regulators have approved a Buck Rogers makeover of Boeing Co.’s revamped 777 jetliner that will allow the tips of its massive wings to fold upward after landing so the plane can ...

The B2 Spirit looks nothing like a conventional aircraft. Rather than wings attached to a fuselage, the B2 is a single flying wing. While most people associate it with stealth, the flying wing design ...

Follow live coverage of qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix today BARCELONA, Spain — One of Formula One’s buzzwords is back in the news ahead of this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix: flexi-wings. The ...

The 1980s marked an era of unconventional thinking in aviation design, giving birth to groundbreaking concepts that aimed to revolutionize commercial air travel. Among these was an aircraft with a ...

A European project to design a wing for a next-generation regional turboprop is closing in on the production of a series of demonstrators that will mature the underlying technologies required. Called ...

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 wing of a fighter ...

The flying wing design is niche and rare today, but the concept has been the focus of study for 100 years. The flying wing design is intuitive but relatively rare. As the name implies, a flying wing ...