Northrop Grumman is teasing us again with another glimpse of its candidate for the US Navy's F/A-XX fighter program. The ...

Maybe the best tail is no tail at all provided your engines and algorithms are good enough. That heresy, embedded in the late-1990s X-44 MANTA study, defied decades of fighter design conventional ...

Today, aircraft wings are increasingly designed to prioritize stealth characteristics over raw speed—giving them a smooth, unbroken connection to the aircraft’s main fuselage. The wing of a fighter ...

A closer look at the reasoning behind the plane's iconic swing-wing mechanism.