Engineers are closing in on a long imagined goal in aviation, wings that can subtly change shape in midair instead of relying ...

A team of researchers at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA) has created a nature-inspired active metal ...

For more than a century now, humanity has had the ability to take to the sky. The aviation industry, one of the most dynamic of any field of human activity, has progressed greatly during this time, ...

The U.S. Air Force has chosen California startup JetZero to build and test a wing-shaped airplane, which may influence the design of the service’s future mobility planes. The service announced the ...

Airbus is spreading its wings and trialing some groundbreaking green technologies. The European aircraft builder is set to begin testing new aircraft wings within months, as reported by The Sunday ...

The concept of blended-wing aircraft – where fuselage and wing are all one structure – is not new. But this radical design might soon be a credible concept for airliners. In March 2025, a small ...

The 1980s marked an era of unconventional thinking in aviation design, giving birth to groundbreaking concepts that aimed to revolutionize commercial air travel. Among these was an aircraft with a ...