NASA researchers recently put a new wing design, long and thin with a lightweight structure, through a series of grueling ...

FARNBOROUGH, England—Airbus plans to flight test an experimental high-aspect-ratio wing extension on an A321neo by 2029 as part of its Wing of Tomorrow research program.

Aircraft wing designs have constantly been reworked over the years. From the Wright brothers mulling over the likes of aspect ratios in their bid to achieve the first flight in the early 1900s, to ...

Airliners have looked largely the same for a long time now. The ongoing hunt for efficiency gains has seen the development of winglets, drag reducing films, and all manner of little aerodynamic tricks ...

Luminary Cloud launched Shift-Wing, a new AI tool designed to accelerate the conceptual design and simulation of advanced aircraft wings for subsonic to transonic speeds. The tool enables engineers to ...

Wing fences are small metal vanes that once graced the wings of early jets. Here's why they have since disappeared from ...

Most sixth-gen fighter concepts have been tailless deltas, and China is pursuing that planform, but Boeing's F-47 went a very ...