Ever since the dawn of aviation many years ago aircraft have established themselves as fixed-wing machines capable of taking to the sky. Why winged? Well, for the simple reason that such a design is ...

In the 1960s, NASA wanted to understand how a spacecraft might return from space and land on a runway without a traditional wing, which led to a study of the lifting body. The HL-10 was one of five ...

Aviation is entering a strange but exciting phase. For decades, most passenger aircraft have ...

With only a few remaining sections of the thermal protection system still to be attached, Dream Chaser DC-101 Tenacity was photographed virtually complete in Sierra’s Louisville, Colorado, assembly ...

NASA researchers are looking at the possibility of using a wingless, unpowered aircraft design from the 1960s to gather atmospheric data on other planets—doing the same work as small satellites but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Blended Wing Body (BWB) design has been around since the 1920s but has only seen real-world use in military aircraft, like the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On May 10, 1967, a NASA research aircraft known as the wingless M2-F2 lifting body crashed on Rogers Dry Lakebed at the Dryden ...