From his youth, Jack Northrop imagined efficient all-wing aircraft so advanced that technology and power plants needed to support them efficiently were not yet available. John "Jack" Northrop was born ...

The XB-35 flying wing could have only existed thanks to one man, Jack Northrop, a brilliant engineer who realized that aircraft design had gone in the wrong direction. The sole purpose of a plane is ...

Longer, thinner wings are on the horizon as NASA and Boeing continue to research what the future of aviation could look like ...

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 ...

The aircraft is similar to another concept model revealed during the 2018 Singapore Air Show, called the Star Shadow, which was developed with an unspecified Chinese institution. A new flying wing ...

Turbulence is a common, and often harmless, part of air travel. It is caused by irregular airflow in the atmosphere and ...

Anyone with an inkling of interest in super-sized remote control aircraft probably has at least seen some of the mind-blowing projects that [Ramy RC] has worked on over the years, with examples like ...

Today, aircraft wings are increasingly designed to prioritize stealth characteristics over raw speed—giving them a smooth, unbroken connection to the aircraft’s main fuselage. The wing of a fighter ...

Airbus UpNext, the airframer’s innovation arm, has completed the installation of its eXtra Performance Wing onto a Cessna Citation VII business jet that will next year serve as a flying testbed for ...

Chinese media described the large unmanned flying wing drone as a stealth-centric, long endurance, persistent reconnaissance and early warning aircraft. China’s massive CH-7 UAV was captured flying ...