The Vought V-173, or "Flying Pancake," defied traditional aircraft design with its flat, flying-wing shape. Invented in the ...

On October 22, 1947, the Northrop YB-49 took its first flight and started a chain reaction of inspiration, setbacks, and ...

The first notable flying wing was the Horten Ho 229, developed by Nazi Germany. -Although the jet fighter was incomplete by the war’s end, its revolutionary design made it less visible to radar ...

If you ever sit in an airplane row overlooking a wing, then you probably notice multiple flaps along its edges that adjust ...

The researchers deployed rows of flaps to the wing design to prevent aircraft from stalling, much like birds deploy their ...

Horten Ho 229: Did Hitler Really Build a Stealth Fighter? The Horten Ho 229 was a German prototype fighter-bomber developed during World War II, often considered the world's first stealth fighter ...

Taking inspiration from bird feathers, Princeton engineers have found that adding rows of flaps to a remote-controlled ...

A San Diego startup says it will build the world's first blended wing body airliner as soon as it rounds up investors.

German air taxi startup Lilium announced the first test of its full-scale, all-electric five-seater aircraft. It was the ...

Natilus' design for a "blended-wing" concept combines the wing and fuselage to increase efficiency. Imagine a B-21 bomber ...

CFRP model responds to airlines’ request to fill Boeing and Airbus gap with 25% less weight, 40% greater capacity and 50% ...