Imagine looking out the window of an airborne airplane and seeing the wing rippling and twisting. You'll probably have a mini ...

German engineers have tested aircraft wings that physically change shape during flight, even during ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...

Boeing has partnered with NASA to ferry an MD-90 airplane from Victorville to Palmdale as part of an experimental aircraft project. Boeing's MD-90 will undergo modifications to test the Transonic ...

Airplanes don't need their wings to be symmetrical to take to the skies. At first, planes were designed with perpendicular wings to the plane's fuselage because every flying creature in nature ...

German researchers develop shape-shifting wings that adapt mid-flight, improving efficiency, control, and future aircraft ...

The 1980s marked an era of unconventional thinking in aviation design, giving birth to groundbreaking concepts that aimed to revolutionize commercial air travel. Among these was an aircraft with a ...

Aurora Flight Sciences has finished windtunnel testing an experimental fan-in-wing design for a Pentagon X-plane competition. The Boeing subsidiary says it recently wrapped up stability and control ...

The new X-plane seeks to inform a potential new generation of more sustainable single-aisle aircraft – the workhorse of passenger airlines around the world. Working with NASA, Boeing will build, test, ...