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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you ever sit in an airplane row overlooking a wing, then you probably notice ... Wissa added that, out of all the models, the five-row design performed best, improving lift by 45-percent ...

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 ...

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 ...

Among the most likely concepts is a blended-wing-body aircraft, which combines the fuselage and wing into one. This deviates from the traditional tube-and-wing design that has been the norm for ...

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 ...

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

Sedky sitting inside of the wind tunnel, showing the covert feather-inspired flaps attached to the 3D-printed model airplane wing. The flaps deploy automatically in response to changes in airflow ...

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