Imagine looking out the window of an airborne airplane and seeing the wing rippling and twisting. You'll probably have a mini ...

In 2014 and 2015, at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, a strange-looking twin-boom aircraft called Proteus spent six months flying with wings that bent instead of ...

The aircraft is meant to develop and mature rotor blown wing design, which can now be applied to larger aircraft for unmanned aerial logistics and even tactical ISR missions. Sikorsky announced it has ...

JetZero has marked a key step toward development of its full-scale blended wing body (BWB) demonstrator by awarding a series of flight control system contracts to BAE Systems, Moog, Safran, Thales and ...

German engineers have tested aircraft wings that physically change shape during flight, even during ...

LYON—Airbus UpNext, the airframer’s innovation arm, has installed most of the composite-material, high-aspect-ratio wing intended to demonstrate 5-10% better efficiency on a modified Cessna Citation ...

Aurora Flight Sciences and DARPA are continuing the assembly of the X-65 CRANE demonstrator, targeting a first flight by 2027. The aircraft is still missing the wings and the canted tails. The company ...

China has quietly moved a key piece of its next-generation airpower from concept to reality, with the CH-7 stealthy flying wing drone completing its first flight and entering a structured test phase.

Sikorsky has successfully completed vertical-to-forward flight transitions of its autonomous rotor-blown-wing demonstrator, an all-electric aircraft the company is using to better understand the ...