NASA is developing a new type of wing that can save commercial airlines billions of dollars every year and early tests look ...

Tiny flying robots have always faced a brutal trade-off between agility and battery life, burning through power just to stay aloft. A new wing architecture inspired by grasshoppers promises to ease ...

An 18-year-old from Olympia, Washington, has just taken a significant step toward transforming the way we think about aviation. Kevin Shen’s new take on oblique-wing design not only achieves a higher ...

The aircraft is particularly susceptible to wing contamination during icy conditions.

Horizon Aircraft's Cavorite X7 already sported a radical design, even within the wild world of hybrid eVTOLs. That design has now been updated, however, for enhanced aerodynamics, cruising performance ...

Over the past ten years or so, American space agency NASA has become a major player in the aviation industry, getting itself involved in all sorts of projects meant to inform the design of the ...

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 ...

Beyond aircraft, Liebeck’s passions included teaching, running and motorcycles. He was a professor of the practice of ...