Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Planes with flapping wings sound more anime than aerospace, but the world’s largest airframers on both sides of the Atlantic are ...

In one of the most famous "Twilight Zone" stories, an airline passenger looks out the window of a commercial plane and is horrified to see a monstrous gremlin on the wing. If you were to do the same ...

Russian researchers have raised the possibility that an Antonov An-124 successor could be designed with folding wing-tips to improve aerodynamic efficiency. The aircraft – dubbed ‘Slon’, meaning ...

The Boeing 747-8's innovative raked wingtips offer a sleek, integrated solution to reduce induced drag.

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Portuguese wet-lease operator Hi Fly is to use an Airbus A330 as a testbed for a wing-tip modification which is intended to reduce fuel burn on the type. The radical wing-tip design – branded ...

API has certified its split scimitar winglet on all models of the Boeing 737NG, including the Boeing Business Jet variant. Credit: Aviation Partners, Inc. Anyone who occupies a window seat with a ...

An 18-year-old from Olympia, Washington, has just taken a significant step toward transforming the way we think about aviation. Kevin Shen’s new take on oblique-wing design not only achieves a higher ...

W. Mangler, 1938, “The lift distribution of wings with end plates,” NACA TM 856; transl. by J. Vanier from “Die Auftriebsverteilung am Tragflügel mit ...

To make aircraft exceedingly more fuel efficient and help deliver on aviation’s sustainability pledge to be carbon-neutral by 2050. In Europe, Airbus is designing radical wing configurations, ...