How Modern Aircraft Wing Designs Save Airlines Money

Modern wings are mostly designed to reduce drag but also save on weight, and provide other benefits to fuel consumption for ...

AI Is Making the Aircraft of the Future Possible

“Siemens Xcelerator gives us the functionality that we need today, but it’s also a platform that’s connected to all the ...
Inc

This Startup Is Cruising Forward With Plans for a Futuristic, Climate-Friendly Aircraft

Co-founder and CEO of JetZero, Tom O’Leary, speaks during a sustainability event at Cranfield University on Wednesday, September 4, 2024. Photo: Getty Images. JetZero has a plan to revolutionize ...
Nature

Blended Wing Body Aircraft Design and Performance

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 ...
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Aircraft That Can Take Off From a Parking Lot to Fly in Our Skies by the Thousands

Until vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) machines, with their innovative ways of flying, get here, there are two main kinds of aircraft in operation today: fixed-wing planes that speed horizontally ...
autoevolution

DARPA-Backed Blended Body Fan-in-Wing Aircraft Ends Crucial Wind Tunnel Tests

Back in 2023 the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced yet another program that's supposed to end with the creation of revolutionary aircraft tech. Called Speed and Runway ...
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Aurora completes wind-tunnel testing on experimental fan-in-wing design

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 ...