The new wing design Airbus is testing could be part of its next-generation single-aisle plane, a topic that has come up often ...

There's no denying just how critical aircraft wings are. For one, they provide storage for an aircraft's fuel that keeps it a safe distance from the cabin containing passengers and crew. This saved 80 ...

For more than a century, aircraft have relied on flaps, hinges, and hydraulic systems to control flight. NASA is now testing ...

A team of researchers at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA) has created a nature-inspired active metal metamaterial that could enable shape-shifting aircraft wings. The material ...

Modern passenger planes are pretty impressive machines. They carry hundreds of people for thousands of miles, pack in luxury trimmings like showers and can even hit supersonic speeds in the right ...

Making the wings on passenger jets thinner and longer can go a long way toward reducing drag and making them more efficient, but they vibrate like crazy. Engineers at NASA and Boeing are now tackling ...

There are a number of startups in the business of making vertical take-off and landing aircraft that have stolen the spotlight over the past few years. The one called Horizon Aircraft is not of them, ...

Ideally, an aircraft would be made of something reasonably strong, light, and weather resistant. Cardboard, is none of those things. But that did not stop [PeterSripol] from building an ultralight ...

One of the most innovative and exciting airplane concepts today is the Z4, developed by the JetZero startup. Touted as the world's first all-wing commercial airplane, the futuristic-looking Z4 aims to ...

Aircraft operated by Emirates and Qantas require inspections, with immediate checks needed for five of the jets.