For decades, the overall shape of a passenger aircraft has remained largely the same, with a central fuselage flanked by a pair of wings that hold the fuel tanks and, most of the time, the engines. It ...

NASA successfully conducted the first flight of a new wing design that could pave the way for more fuel-efficient commercial aircraft. Published on NASA’s official website, the article “NASA Completes ...

The advanced air mobility industry is currently working to produce novel aircraft ranging from air taxis to autonomous cargo drones, and all of those designs will require extensive testing—which is ...

A team of engineers has built and tested a new kind of airplane wing, assembled from hundreds of tiny identical pieces. The wing can change shape to control the plane’s flight, and could provide a ...

Over the past ten years or so, American space agency NASA has become a major player in the aviation industry, getting itself involved in all sorts of projects meant to inform the design of the ...

Luminary Cloud has launched Shift-Wing, a new AI tool that uses advanced physics simulations to accelerate the conceptual design and validation of cutting-edge aircraft wings. Shift-Wing enables ...

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 ...

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 ...