With a US$425-million cash injection from NASA, Boeing will build and test a full-sized airliner based on its transonic truss-braced wing (TTBW) concept, using long, thin, strut-braced wings to add ...

RENO, Nevada—The U.S. Navy wants to steam ahead on bringing more uncrewed aircraft into its air wings, but under current Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle that is a different approach than ...

Rather than focusing on getting passengers from A to B as quickly as possible, airlines needed to figure out how to do it ...

When I fly, I like to get a window seat. This is a poor option if you plan on going to the toilet, but it's great if you like to look at stuff. I think that's a fair trade off. In a recent flight, I ...

Even today, aircraft wings are still assembled manually; but this process could soon be automated thanks to a novel snake-like robot capable of tightening bolts in even the most difficult-to-access ...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Oct. 1, 2012) -- The Army is refining an initial capabilities document for a new fixed-wing utility aircraft that is designed to replace more than 112 airframes with a ...

The flight testing campaign of the X-48C Blended Wing Body (BWB, aka Hybrid Wing Body) research aircraft kicked off on August 7, 2012, at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center. Eight months later the ...

The Mirage G was a French prototype aircraft that ultimately never made it into military service. The jet, powered by a potent Pratt & Whitney/Snecma FF 306 turbofan, revolutionized the idea of the ...