The exact airfoil shape of a wing has a massive effect on the performance and efficiency of an aircraft and will be selected based on the intended flight envelope. If you’re moving beyond foam ...

The Wing Weight function models a light aircraft wing. The response is the wing's weight. Forrester, A., Sobester, A., & Keane, A. (2008). Engineering design via surrogate modelling: a practical guide ...

A recent study suggests that the unique structure of bird feathers could inspire a revolutionary design for aircraft safety.

Southern California start-up Natilus has emerged with a blended wing-body aircraft design it believes will upend decades of ...

Engineers will assess measurements of the demonstration plane's lift, drag, aerodynamics, and more to see if it requires any ...

Airliners have become an unremarkable part of modern life, but unless you happen to be an aircraft enthusiast, you’d be forgiven for thinking the latest Airbus model looks more or less the same ...

GE Aerospace in 2025 plans to use two of the world's fastest computers, both at US-government-funded research facilities, to ...

Researchers attached covert feather-inspired flaps to a 3D-printed model airplane wing and mounted it in a wind tunnel to explore the role of covert feathers in bird flight. By precisely measuring ...

The Flying-V design would see passengers carried in the aircraft's wings An equally radical idea ... airline KLM and Airbus - and in July a scale model took to the skies for the first time ...

Blériot first ventured into aeronautical design between 1900 and 1902 when he built a series of model "ornithopters"—aircraft propelled by flapping wings—that were powered by carbon-dioxide ...

Aircraft manufacturers are racing to build the jet of the future as airlines demand more efficient planes. Among the most likely concepts is a blended-wing-body aircraft, which combines the ...