Designed in the early 1950s, the Payen Pa-49 Katy had a delta wing, jet engine, fixed gear, wooden structure, and less thrust ...

The presence of Su-33 aircraft over the Norwegian and Barents seas reveals more about the Russian navy's condition than the ...

Engineering excellence and modern technology meld in the world’s best fighters found on the decks of aircraft carriers around ...

The presence of Su-33 aircraft over the Norwegian and Barents Seas reveals more about the state of the Russian navy than the ...

They are the closest thing we've ever built to X-wings from "Star Wars ... Its all-moving canards near the nose of the aircraft make it particularly agile at low altitudes.

Year-end revelations of two new Chinese combat aircraft designs, the Chengdu J-36 and the Shenyang J-XX, should have put an ...

The questionable F-313 Qaher, presented in 2013 as "Iran's first stealth jet", reappears in drone form. On Feb. 1, 2013, Iran ...

It should come as no surprise that the Eastern Bloc powers came up with their own aerial counterparts to the A-10. Though the Republic Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolt II, far better known by its unofficial ...

The Cirrus VK-30 was a groundbreaking aircraft introduced by Cirrus Design Corporation in 1987. Founded by brothers Alan and ...

Of course, aircraft manufacturers enjoy boasting of ... It boasts an airframe that's inherently unstable, which necessitates canards and a quadruplex fly-by-wire system, but keeps the model's ...

If the aircraft is an early-stage technology demonstrator, that might explain some of the design details. One is intriguing if this is a carrier jet: the nose is quite long and, as noted, the cockpit ...