The winner-take-all nature of aerial combat means the slightest edge can be the difference between victory and death. Power, maneuverability, agility, armor, and armament were all key components of a ...

The Mirage G was a French prototype aircraft that ultimately never made it into military service. The jet, powered by a potent Pratt & Whitney/Snecma FF 306 turbofan, revolutionized the idea of the ...

Not many aircraft can claim to be truly one of a kind, but the NASA AD-1 is undoubtedly one of them. A slim pointed cigar with a single wing that pivoted around a central point, which led to a jarring ...

Cyclogyro Flying Robot Improves its Angles of Attack by Lisa Zyga, Phys.org Add as preferred source A prototype design of the cyclogyro craft with five pantograph-based variable wing units. Image ...

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 ...

Summary and 4 Points You Need to Know: The MiG-23 “Flogger” was the Soviet response to the American F-4 Phantom II, developed in the 1960s to replace the aging MiG-21. -Featuring a variable-wing sweep ...

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An 18-year-old from Olympia, Washington, has just taken a significant step toward transforming the way we think about aviation. Kevin Shen’s new take on oblique-wing design not only achieves a higher ...