The go-to aircraft when it comes to ridiculing Second World War German aircraft design, the Bv 141 was an extremely efficient ...

Research and data obtained during the testing of these and other experimental aircraft would lead to today’s B-2 Spirit bomber and beyond. American concerns that Great Britain might fall to Axis ...

Airbus and the startups JetZero and Natilus are leading development of these efficient flying wings. The jets would burn dramatically less fuel and feature distinctly shaped passenger cabins. Aircraft ...

No one believed it could fly” - yet flying wings pushed the boundaries of aerospace design. This video explores the history ...

The flying wing design is niche and rare today, but the concept has been the focus of study for 100 years. The flying wing design is intuitive but relatively rare. As the name implies, a flying wing ...

New images have emerged of one of China’s futuristic fighter jets, a three-engine, tailless flying wing aircraft that Western analysts have dubbed the J-36. It’s unclear when the images, which are ...

What You Need to Know: The Vought V-173, or “Flying Pancake,” defied traditional aircraft design with its flat, flying-wing shape. Invented in the 1930s by Charles Zimmerman, the V-173 was designed in ...

Like everything else around us, aviation is changing too, and it does so at a rapid pace. From new ways to power the planes to new and more efficient shapes of airplanes' bodies, the biggest players ...

Air travelers in the next few years may be able to take a futuristic flight on an innovative blended-wing-body aircraft meant to help Delta Air Lines reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Delta is ...

Based in Rapid City, the crew will use this asset to transport patients needing to go farther distances for higher-level ...

From his youth, Jack Northrop imagined efficient all-wing aircraft so advanced that technology and power plants needed to support them efficiently were not yet available. John “Jack” Northrop was born ...