Researchers at the University of Surrey have proposed a computational approach that can provide aerodynamic drag data more ...

China appears to have built a new prototype of a mostly ignored military aircraft; a Wing-in-Ground Effect (WIG) plane. Also commonly known by the Russian word ekranoplan, it's a type of aircraft ...

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The AltoVolo Sigma hybrid-electric aircraft flies 500 miles at 220 mph while operating 80% quieter than helicopters, featuring safety systems and compact design.

LOS ANGELES - Meet the U.S. military’s new plane that might revolutionize how aircraft are designed. In January, Aurora Flight Sciences, a subsidiary of Boeing, announced that it has begun ...

A Seattle-area startup called Radian Aerospace is fine-tuning the design of its orbital space plane, with an eye toward building a subscale prototype as early as this year. The company is also in the ...

Italy once built a plane that looked more like a trash can than a fighter jet. But the Stipa-Caproni wasn’t just weird - it ...

A video for the 80th anniversary of the Skunk Works shows, through renderings and sketches, the past, the present and the future of the secretive division of Lockheed Martin. To celebrate 80 years of ...

Oklahoma City-based Long Wave Inc. is part of a team led by Northrop Grumman, which was awarded a $3.5 billion contract to develop the next generation of doomsday planes for the U.S. Navy. The E-130J, ...

No matter the advancements made in the technology that powers them, aircraft generally tend to maintain the same overall shape as their predecessors. So does an electric flying machine called Alice, ...

There’s a global energy crisis and onshore wind farms are a potential growth option. Larger wind turbines produce more power than standard ones, but the components are too big to be transported by ...