The Trislander, built on the Isle of Wight, is one of the most distinctive aircraft in British aerospace heritage. The newly ...

With its elliptical wing form, the Supermarine Spitfire provided more lift and ... Every turning point in aircraft design imparts basic lessons in structural integrity, aerodynamics, propulsion ...

According to the Cornell Lab or Ornithology, there are four general wing shapes that allow birds to do specific things, such ...

According to the Cornell Lab or Ornithology, there are four general wing shapes that allow birds to do specific things, such ...

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

Boeing this summer will stop developing NASA's X-66 truss-braced-wing demonstrator aircraft and shift its focus specifically ...

Boeing and NASA are to pause development of the X-66 flight demonstrator to focus their research on the evolution of long, ...

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 ...

Credit: NASA Image Collection / Alamy Stock Photo Cranfield University, the UK’s premier academic aerospace research hub, is leading the design of multiple scaled blended wing body (BWB ...