Ever since the first airplane took off to the skies in the early 20th century, succeeding models have all usually shared ...

NASA and Boeing are pausing the development of the X-66 full-scale Sustainable Flight Demonstrator. Instead, they will re-focus their efforts on demonstrating the benefits of thin-wing technology.

The X-59 took off from Skunk Works' facility at U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, before landing near NASA's ...

Modern wings are mostly designed to reduce drag but also save on weight, and provide other benefits to fuel consumption for airlines.

NASA's X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) experimental supersonic aircraft took to the skies for the first time on ...

Drag is the aerodynamic force that opposes an aircraft’s motion through the air. Being able to predict drag accurately at an ...

Flown by NASA X-59 lead pilot Nils Larson, the much-anticipated first flight of the Lockheed Martin-built aircraft began at 8 ...

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

Luminary Cloud has launched Shift-Wing, an AI-powered model and dataset designed to accelerate the conceptual design of advanced aircraft wings, from subsonic all the way up to transonic speeds. The ...

The Blended Wing Body (BWB) concept represents a transformative shift in aircraft design, merging the wing and fuselage into a single, continuous lifting surface. This integration offers substantial ...