Airbus engineers have flown a scale-model airplane with flapping wing-tips. Based on the structure of the albatross wing, the remote-controlled AlbatrossOne uses a "semi-aeroelastic hinge" concept ...

The tilt-wing design is very clean in cruise, so does not suffer from this drawback. So the tilt-wing aircraft is a fuel-efficient long-range cruiser, which is also capable of VTOL operations.

Aircraft with wings that “morph” in this way can initiate turns at low speeds without stalling or experiencing control reversal, and can manoeuvre more sharply than conventional designs ...

A team of MIT researchers has identified microbes that -- with a little genetic engineering -- could highlight stress points in aircraft wings. The microbes produce certain proteins that bond to ...

Airbus aims to fly the extra-performance wing demonstrator aircraft by mid-decade, says chief technology officer Sabine Klauke, and it could have a potential application on a next-generation aircraft.

The Aircraft Strength Research Institute of China completes the theory verification on a full lattice distributed morphing wing structure based on mechanical metamaterials on January 3, 2024.