In the 1940s, flying wing aircraft promised up to 30% better efficiency by removing the fuselage and tail, reducing drag to a minimum. Massive designs like the XB-35 were expected to deliver unmatched ...

‘Investment and strategic collaboration' is intended to support the design of the company's Z4.

Like everything else around us, aviation is changing too, and it does so at a rapid pace. From new ways to power the planes to new and more efficient shapes of airplanes' bodies, the biggest players ...

The flying wing design is niche and rare today, but the concept has been the focus of study for 100 years. The flying wing design is intuitive but relatively rare. As the name implies, a flying wing ...

The Rotor Blown Wing is a hybrid-electric, fully autonomous flying wing aircraft. Credit: Sikorsky NASHVILLE—Sikorsky plans to fly a Group 3 design of its Rotor Blown Wing next month as the company ...

Global market forecasts predict a demand for over 43,000 new commercial aircraft in the next two decades, with Boeing and Airbus projected to fall short by more than 17,000 planes. Blended-wing body ...

From his youth, Jack Northrop imagined efficient all-wing aircraft so advanced that technology and power plants needed to support them efficiently were not yet available. John “Jack” Northrop was born ...

Air travelers in the next few years may be able to take a futuristic flight on an innovative blended-wing-body aircraft meant to help Delta Air Lines reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Delta is ...

Modern aircraft use swept-back wings to fly efficiently at high speeds, but this design came from a serious problem in early ...

The aircraft is similar to another concept model revealed during the 2018 Singapore Air Show, called the Star Shadow, which was developed with an unspecified Chinese institution. A new flying wing ...