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 ...

The Overture is a new plane concept designed by Boom Supersonic that could reach 1,300mph. The US-based company aims to cut flights between Miami and London from eight hours and 45 minutes to just ...

CityHawk is a wingless, car-sized eVTOL aircraft that features a fully enclosed rotor system and is designed to complete multiple trips within a city per day with zero emissions and minimal noise.

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 ...

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 ...

ESA's wingless space plane successfully performed its first test flight. The ESA will test its new reusable unmanned space plane with a suborbital flight, and it will be streamed live.

The contraption looked more like an inverted flat iron than a flying machine. With two tail fins and no wings, a rounded belly and a flat top, the experimental craft M2-F2 was rolled out last week ...

Since the arrival of jet engines, hangars all over the country have been full of odd model aircraft, designed to take advantage of the jet's enormous thrust. Most of them are freaks that will ...

It's commonly referred to as a "wingless" aircraft. After Air Force test pilot Bill Dana took the M2-F3 on three unpowered glide test flights, he did the first powered flight, too.