Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blended wing aircraft could slash carbon emissions. This rendering shows a design by California-based JetZero, which aims to have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A startup planemaker announced a 200-passenger "blended wing body" plane to rival Airbus and Boeing. Natilus' design aims to ...

Making the wings on passenger jets thinner and longer can go a long way toward reducing drag and making them more efficient, but they vibrate like crazy. Engineers at NASA and Boeing are now tackling ...

While Airbus expects its next narrowbody jet will have a traditional tube-and-wing configuration, it has not abandoned the idea of an eventual blended-wing-body (BWB) design for a larger jet. That is ...

It's been nearly a century since William Boeing laid the groundwork for his namesake company, and over the ensuing decades, Boeing became one of the most prominent names in the aviation arena. In that ...

While all eyes have been on the astounding Artemis II mission that sent humans back to the moon, NASA has been working on ...

Summary and Key Points: The F-16 SFW (Forward-Swept Wing) was an experimental fighter developed by General Dynamics in the 1970s as part of DARPA’s Forward Swept Wing Program. Designed to reduce drag ...

The United States military and its many defense contractors are constantly working on designing, maintaining, and improving U.S. aircraft. Any fighter jet that flies for the military likely underwent ...

The double-decker that could have been.

The basic design of commercial airplanes hasn't changed much in the past 60 years. Modern airliners like the Boeing 787 and the Airbus A350 have the same general shape as the Boeing 707 and the ...