In the 1950s, NASA engineer Robert T. Jones envisioned a wing unlike any before it - one that could pivot mid-flight to ...

Concorde was the result of a joint program between France's Sud Aviation and the United Kingdom's British Aircraft ...

Aeronautical Engineer Richard Whitcomb literally changed the shape of modern aviation when he designed the “Coke bottle” fuselage — a narrow-waisted plane body that helps high-speed jets to slip ...

The Concorde was the fastest commercial plane ever flown, but its speed came with a hefty price tag. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Flown by NASA X-59 lead pilot Nils Larson, the much-anticipated first flight of the Lockheed Martin-built aircraft began at 8 ...

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 ...

It strikes from altitudes so low that by the time enemy radar detects it, bombs are already falling. Equipped with Doppler ...

The X-59 features a distinctive elongated fuselage and wing design aimed at reducing sonic booms to a level of 75 decibels.

Boom Supersonic is working hard to upend the status quo in commercial flight with its Overture airliner — a supersonic craft that will be propelled by brand-new engines the company just revealed.

A Chinese research paper on an ejectable cockpit for high-supersonic flight has drawn attention after a mysterious blended-wing test object appeared at ...