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

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 ...

A high-level discussion on the upcoming operations of Boeing’s newest wide-body aircraft, the 777-9, was held this week at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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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.

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 ...

November 13, 2006: Some Chinese JH-7 naval bombers have been spotted sporting an interesting modification; folding wings. This sort of thing is only done for large aircraft you want to operate from an ...