The airliner you board in the future could look a lot different from today's, with longer, thinner wings that provide a ...

American space agency NASA and aircraft maker Boeing have been researching longer and thinner wing designs, they are now ...

The Integrated Adaptive Wing Technology Maturation wind-tunnel model installed in the Transonic Dynamics Tunnel at NASA ...

Making the wings on passenger jets thinner and longer can go a long way toward reducing drag and making them more efficient, but they vibrate like crazy. Engineers at NASA and Boeing are now tackling ...

Long, narrow wings are intended to reduce fuel consumption and increase comfort in aircraft. However, wing flutter must be ...

When creating lift, longer, thinner wings can reduce drag, making them efficient. However, they can become very flexible in ...

Pilots sometimes need to operate at slow speeds—during tight turns and landings, for instance—and good low-speed handling is ...

As a result of these challenges, most flying wing projects and prototypes never take-off, literally or figuratively. In fact, ...

A 6-ton-class tiltrotor aircraft—the world's first of its kind—named the Lanying R6000 and independently developed by a ...

Nobody has time for weird smells on airplanes, and that odd odor at takeoff counts double. Here's what it is and if you ...

These wings could be a game-changer for aircraft, with experts from NASA and Boeing now exploring the development and ...

The tailless uncrewed jet contains several features associated with low-observable aircraft and is believed to play a role in ...