Aurora, a Boeing company, has confirmed its high-speed vertical takeoff and landing concept has completed stability and ...

Boeing's Aurora Flight Sciences announced the completion of Phase I wind tunnel tests for the aircraft it develops for ...

The Blackhawk helicopter is about to be replaced by the tiltrotor V-280 in the U.S. military. The new aircraft is much faster ...

"Aurora and Boeing bring relevant expertise in blended-wing-body platforms, high-speed VTOL configurations ... potential to change the future of aircraft design," Kevin Uleck, CRANE program ...

In the 1960s, U.S. Navy strategists wanted an aircraft that could efficiently cruise at subsonic speed ... effects of variable-sweep wings. Some of the design and even some parts were cannibalized ...

With a curved tip, some of the airflow around a wing ... the design. Winglets are all about boosting lift, not airspeed. Because they add extra weight to the plane, it affects cruising speed.

JetZero's Z4 airplane will be able to welcome up to 250 passengers and make their flight experience much better. The futuristic all-wing design translates ... this also helps speed things up ...

THE DESIGN OF U.S. FRONTLINE FIGHTERS and bombers—the F-117, F-22, and B-2—is primarily based on a simple defensive strategy: If they can’t see you, they can’t shoot at you. But way back ...

Airline believes JetZero’s Z4 could reduce fuel burn by as much as 50 percent per passenger mile versus comparably sized tube ...

United Airlines ( NASDAQ: UAL) aims to be one of the first U.S. commercial carriers to fly passengers on a futuristic blended ...

Officially described as a "pause," development of the thin-wing airplane is being halted in favor of ground-based testing. NASA had high hopes for ... flight near the speed of sound using an ...