Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Boeing won the $20 billion contract to develop the US Air Force's sixth-gen stealth fighter, the F-47. The designation is a nod to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The V-280 Valor performs a flight demonstration in Arlington, Texas, Oct. 28, 2020. (Luke J. Allen/U.S. Army) The service has had ...

During the late years of the Cold War, the US Air Force and NASA wanted to study new aerodynamic concepts and advanced flight-control systems for the design and development of future aircraft. To ...

A visually striking feature, the folding wingtips on the 777X are critical to its operation.

Boeing has paused the development of its experimental X-66 flight demonstrator, which featured a transonic truss-braced wing. The company will instead focus on a simpler ground-based testbed to ...

The conceptual design stage is a key step in aircraft development, laying the foundation for performance, efficiency and innovation. Traditionally, this process relies heavily on experienced designers ...

In the next few decades, the standard passenger aircraft will look radically different, according to the head of one of the world’s largest plane manufacturers. Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said in a ...

Airbus’ proposal appears to draw on the company’s X 3 technology, with the pusher propellers fitted mid-wing to make room for weapon pylons. Credit: Airbus Helicopters/NSPA As NATO sets out to define ...

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 ...