The Kawasaki Ki-64 twin-engine fighter used a unique tandem engine and vapor cooling system but was abandoned after limited testing in World War II.

But the variable-sweep wing design seems to have gone out of fashion most recently. As the name suggests, “variable-sweep” wings are aircraft wings that can be adjusted to different degrees of ...

Peek out the window on an A350 flight and you’ll see wings that bend, flex, and adapt in order to make long-haul flying smoother and more efficient.

We are taught from a very young age that aircraft generally hide fuel tanks inside their wings. That remains true, for the most part, but now that a new breed of aircraft called vertical take-off and ...

The B-1B Lancer is a supersonic variable-sweep wing heavy bomber used by the US Air Force, designed for long-range missions with high payload capacity. Originally built for nuclear delivery, it was ...

‘Investment and strategic collaboration' is intended to support the design of the company's Z4.

For ages, it seems, we have grown accustomed to airplanes looking a certain way: there's a central fuselage that hides room for people and cargo, wings to either side of that, and engines generally ...

Horizon Aircraft's Cavorite X7 already sported a radical design, even within the wild world of hybrid eVTOLs. That design has now been updated, however, for enhanced aerodynamics, cruising performance ...

As US-based aerospace manufacturer Natilus secures US$28 million in additional financing, the company has revealed the latest supersized version of its Horizon blended-wing airliner that upgrades the ...