The Italian Stipa-Caproni experimental aircraft featured a tube-shaped fuselage similar in design to modern turbofans.

Boeing has begun production of the highly anticipated Boeing 777-8F, as it manufactured the first spar - a long beam that ...

The U.S. jet engine supply chain faces strategic risks due to globalization, brain drain and cyberattacks, argues retired Air ...

Boeing has begun work on the wings for its new generation 777-8 freighter ahead of its revised entry to market date of 2028 ...

If you've been hoping for a long-range, low-cost, heavy-lift seaplane using Wing-In-Ground effect (WIG), you'll have to be ...

In World War II, amphibious aircraft were used for reconnaissance, search and rescue operations, and anti-submarine warfare. After that, changes in technology and design were minimal. Fast forward to ...

The Viceroy incorporates an inertial navigation system for precise low-altitude flight, autonomous and semi-autonomous flight ...

But pterosaurs primarily had one finger to support their wings. Their main wing was composed of a single giant “spar” – a structural unit – made of up of the bones of the arm and the ...

The operator chose to repair, rather than replace, the wing spar as recommended by the manufacturer. An inspection failed to detect the crack, according to the NTSB.

On this day in aviation history, January 9, 1943, a large four engine transport aircraft with three tail fins rose from the runway at Burbank Airport, California. This was the Lockheed Constellation, ...

End of the nineties, Radius Engineering studied RTM wing panel (Airbus Tango Project) and I lead, for Sonaca, a study on large RTM fuselage panel (ESA reusable launcher). In 2014, Dr Herrmann ...

“We assess that the sightings to date include a combination of lawful commercial drones, hobbyist drones and law enforcement drones, as well as manned fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and even ...