Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences is a finalist in an X-plane competition organised by the US Defense Advanced ...

United Airlines ( NASDAQ: UAL) aims to be one of the first U.S. commercial carriers to fly passengers on a futuristic blended ...

Wings of tomorrow: The role of aircraft design in sustainability Beyond fuel alternatives, innovative aircraft design plays a ...

The X-66 program heavily modified a McDonnell Douglas MD-90 aircraft to demonstrate a truss-braced version of the thin wing.

From his youth, Jack Northrop imagined efficient all-wing aircraft so advanced that technology and power plants needed to support them efficiently were ...

A paper published last month in China’s top aviation journal ... Carrier-based flying-wing aircraft face a critical challenge ...

American aerospace Boeing decided to put on hold the creation of the X-66 transonic truss-braced wing demonstrator and focus ...

Andrew Chang, head of the airline’s corporate venture capital fund United Airlines Ventures, said: "If successful, JetZero ...

Based on a heavily modified McDonnell Douglas MD-90, the X-66 was intended to demonstrate a truss-braced version of the thin wing at full scale. The experimental aircraft formed the flagship of NASA’s ...

United today announced an investment in blended wing body (BWB) aircraft start-up JetZero. The company is creating an ...

DURHAM – Superintendent Dr. Robert Shaps and Principal Bill Sullivan are delighted to share that Oyster River Middle School ...

Though prototypes were wind tunnel tested and the design stirred excitement in aviation circles, manufacturers ultimately stuck with conventional wings. Today, the ring wing remains a fascinating ...