Piper Aircraft, renowned for its iconic aircraft designs, has significantly impacted general aviation by making flying ...

and Airbus are all betting on blended wing designs to do this. Blended wing aircraft are basically flying wings, where the cargo-carrying section of aircraft is shorter, wider, and produces lift.

The XB-35 flying wing could have only existed thanks to one man, Jack Northrop, a brilliant engineer who realized that ...

While most modern aircraft feature a two-winged design that enables lift, that's not the only way to design a plane. Northrop Grumman's B-2 Spirit and B-21 Raider are examples of flying-wing ...

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner’s wing flex stands out as one of its most defining features. The plane’s wings are engineered to bend upwards by up to 25 feet (7.6 meters) during flight — a remarkable sight ...

Delta wings are a popular design in aviation ... techniques to enhance the performance of delta wings. A study on flying wing aircraft utilized jet flow control to delay vortex breakdown, which ...

THIS is the moment a new flying drone ship skims across the ocean to fly 10 times faster than a boat. Aptly named the Flying ...

Built to copy some of the 1950’s era innovations in delta-style jet aircraft, the plane is essentially a flying wing that seats ... Still, the design is time-tested, and over 50 of the planes ...

It looks like a flying wedge - known in the trade as a blended-wing design. Airbus calls the remote-controlled aircraft Maveric and is keen to emphasise that, at the moment, it is only exploring ...

The Chinese aircraft in the online images are not the first modern tailless designs. The Northrop Grumman B-2 and B-21 stealth bombers are both flying wings, and several uncrewed aircraft ...

Both designs are tailless ... Reuters confirmed a video showing the larger of the two new Chinese aircraft flying over Chengdu by matching nearby buildings, signage, logos and trees to satellite ...