The Navy retired the F-14 Tomcat for five intertwined reasons: crippling upkeep (tens of maintenance hours per flight hour ...

The Tu-160 “Blackjack” is the Soviet answer to America’s long-range bomber problem—a variable-sweep, Mach-2 class ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the Clean Aviation project, Fraunhofer researchers teamed up with partners to develop a system that causes icy spots on ...

Electra has received 2,200 provisional orders for its EL9, a hybrid-electric, fixed-wing aircraft featuring ultra-short takeoff and landing (STOL) capabilities. The EL9 is attracting a globally ...

A B-2 Spirit flying over cloudy skies - U.S. Air Force/Wikimedia Commons The B-1B Lancer features variable-geometry wings, ...

Greensboro, North Carolina, becomes the center of attention as aerospace startup JetZero and state officials confirm that this is where one of the most revolutionary new-generation aircraft will be ...

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 ...

This figure shows the comparison of the spatial distributions of the time-averaged flow field before and after drooping the leading edge in the form of u-velocity sections. With the drooping leading ...

A Chinese research paper on an ejectable cockpit for high-supersonic flight has drawn attention after a mysterious blended-wing test object appeared at ...