The Blended Wing Body (BWB) concept represents a transformative shift in aircraft design, merging the wing and fuselage into a single, continuous lifting surface. This integration offers substantial ...

American space agency NASA and aircraft maker Boeing have been researching longer and thinner wing designs, they are now ...

Aurora Flight Sciences has finished windtunnel testing an experimental fan-in-wing design for a Pentagon X-plane competition. The Boeing subsidiary says it recently wrapped up stability and control ...

Southern California start-up Natilus has emerged with a blended wing-body (BWB) aircraft design it believes will upend decades of tube-and-wing dominance in the commercial jet market. “When we started ...

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 ...

China appears to have built a new prototype of a mostly ignored military aircraft; a Wing-in-Ground Effect (WIG) plane. Also commonly known by the Russian word ekranoplan, it's a type of aircraft ...

The triangle-shaped "blended-wing body" plane ditches the traditional tube-and-wing design for one giant, sweeping wing with the cabin built inside.

Work continues at a steady pace on Van's RV-15, the company's first high-wing design aimed at the backcountry market. Since its debut, the RV-15 has seen extensive flight testing, evaluation, and ...