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 ...

For decades, the overall shape of a passenger aircraft has remained largely the same, with a central fuselage flanked by a pair of wings that hold the fuel tanks and, most of the time, the engines. It ...

Commercial airlines spend a lot on fuel each year. Some estimates for 2024 put the figure at $291 billion, and that's up from $271 billion in 2023. We can only assume that number climbed even higher ...

Unlike most emerging electric air taxis, Nalwa Aero is developing a box-wing design that connects the front and rear wings at ...

Before Censys Technologies flies a Sentaero aircraft, it performs engineering work on the ground to ensure that the platform will perform every time. Recently, John Tillo and Dr. J. Gordon Leishman ...

Boeing and NASA will pause work on a new, experimental aircraft design meant to deliver more sustainable options for the future of aviation. The aircraft project — called the X-66A Sustainable Flight ...

Over the next three years, Airbus will design, build and flight test full scale wing extensions. These will be installed on an A321neo aircraft and used to evaluate how the different wing geometries ...