Witness one of the most innovative features of the Boeing 777X: its folding wingtip. While it may seem like a small detail, the folding wingtips on the 777X bring a host of benefits to the aircraft’s ...

So despite having been extinct for 66 million years, the pterosaurs have huge potential as the inspiration for aircraft ...

It's unique, but not a new design, and will allow the aircraft to serve both Category E and Category F airports.

Insider toured Flight Test 1 — Boeing's first-ever 777X aircraft — to learn more about the program. The Boing 777X is the planemaker's newest passenger aircraft, having first flown in January ...

A legitimate mammoth of an aircraft, the 777X will rank as the ... However, the unique folding wing design proved a pivotal element in the 777X's development because the jet's full width made ...

Airbus is well ahead of beleaguered Boeing in developing a 21st-century narrow-bodied aircraft; the US planemaker’s workhorse 737 is nearing its 60th birthday. Yet Europe’s folding wing of ...

PteroDynamics said its aircraft, called Transwing, folds and unfolds its wings during flight to achieve different wing configurations, resulting in a smaller ground footprint and more effective ...

handbook methods and/or semi-/empirical methods in the early phase of aircraft design are sufficient to develop the initial configuration. Due to novel configurations with, for example, high aspect ...

Pop-up spoilers, to be found on the folding wingtips and possibly elsewhere ... The Citation VII will be transformed into an uncrewed aircraft and the wing flight-tested remotely.

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Aircraft wings are among the most complex ... still being able to operate within existing airport infrastructure. Folding wing tips already exist on the upcoming Boeing 777X jet that’s set ...

workhorse aircraft that make up the majority of the aviation market. Airbus is not the first to dream up folding wings: Boeing will introduce them on its new 777X jet, due for delivery in 2026.