The Crusader’s variable-incidence wing was a bold solution to conflicting carrier requirements. By raising the wing for ...

But the variable-sweep wing design seems to have gone out of fashion most recently. As the name suggests, “variable-sweep” wings are aircraft wings that can be adjusted to different degrees of ...

Despite claims of Mach 2.54, pilots report that the fastest speeds achieved in practice are Mach 2.25–2.3 in brand-new ...

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 ...

DARPA's X-65, that replaces conventional aircraft flight controls with puffs of air, is coming together at Boeing subsidiary Aurora’s Bridgeport, West Virginia facility. The fuselage is taking shape ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Canada-based aerospace engineering company Horizon Aircraft has hit a significant milestone by becoming the first eVTOL developer ...

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

For ages, it seems, we have grown accustomed to airplanes looking a certain way: there's a central fuselage that hides room for people and cargo, wings to either side of that, and engines generally ...