In the 1940s, the flying wing seemed destined to transform aviation with its sleek design and efficiency. But despite promising early tests, Jack Northrop’s prototypes faced engineering challenges and ...

Building an RC flying wing is a practical way to learn about lightweight aircraft design and flight performance. Simple ...

Research and data obtained during the testing of these and other experimental aircraft would lead to today’s B-2 Spirit bomber and beyond. American concerns that Great Britain might fall to Axis ...

The flying wing design is niche and rare today, but the concept has been the focus of study for 100 years. The flying wing design is intuitive but relatively rare. As the name implies, a flying wing ...

The aircraft is similar to another concept model revealed during the 2018 Singapore Air Show, called the Star Shadow, which was developed with an unspecified Chinese institution. A new flying wing ...

The Rotor Blown Wing is a hybrid-electric, fully autonomous flying wing aircraft. Credit: Sikorsky NASHVILLE—Sikorsky plans to fly a Group 3 design of its Rotor Blown Wing next month as the company ...

Luminary Cloud has launched Shift-Wing, an AI tool and dataset designed to accelerate the conceptual design of advanced aircraft wings, from subsonic to transonic speeds. Shift-Wing utilizes advanced ...

Boss: Tom O’Learhy, CEO of JetZero. (Photo by Thomas Wasper) The future of commercial aviation could be taking shape inside a hangar next to Long Beach Airport. This is where Long Beach startup ...