French engineers dared to rethink aviation with the Coléoptère—a wingless, cylindrical marvel designed to take off and land vertically on its tail. Promising runway-free operations, supersonic ramjet ...

Brits planning US holidays to New York City could find themselves only facing a five-hour flight time in the near future, thanks to a new 'wingless' plane design that looks like something out of a ...

Lockheed Martin, for example, in 2016 proposed a wingless aircraft as a competitor for the U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command's next-generation tanker aircraft program.

Israel-based aerospace company Urban Aeronautics says it has secured $10 million for the continued development of its CityHawk eVTOL aircraft.

A study reveals how the Wingless signalling pathway shapes the embryonic intestine of the Drosophila fly, activating a mechanism involved in calcium transport. The finding redefines the role of ...

Most of them are freaks that will never fly. Last week designers were studying a novel wingless aircraft that is not in the same class.

On Nov. 25, 1970, an experimental aircraft called the Northrop M2-F3 made its first powered flight. The M2-F3 was a heavyweight lifting body. A lifting body is an airplane that produces most of ...

On Aug. 16, 1963, NASA's M2-F1 aircraft prototype made its first glide flight. This wingless aircraft kind of looked like a flying bathtub. NASA made it to test a new concept called the lifting ...

The ESA will test its new reusable unmanned space plane with a suborbital flight, and it will be streamed live.

Austrian company debuts revolutionary wingless aircraft (PhysOrg.com) -- A firm from Austria, Austrian Innovative Aeronautical Technology (IAT21) has unveiled a new type of aircraft that flies ...

A SUPERSONIC plane that can carry 300 passengers in ultra-lux flights promises to bring science fiction to life. The spaceship-like aircraft could fly from London to New York at incredible speed in… ...

M2-F2 is a wingless glider, called the Manned Lifting Body Research Vehicle, designed to be used eventually to ferry astronauts back from space to a dry landing rather than an ocean dunking.