American space agency NASA and aircraft maker Boeing have been researching longer and thinner wing designs, they are now ...
The airliner you board in the future could look a lot different from today's, with longer, thinner wings that provide a ...
The triangle-shaped "blended-wing body" plane ditches the traditional tube-and-wing design for one giant, sweeping wing with ...
When creating lift, longer, thinner wings can reduce drag, making them efficient. However, they can become very flexible in ...
Longer, thinner wings are on the horizon as NASA and Boeing continue to research what the future of aviation could look like ...
The Integrated Adaptive Wing Technology Maturation wind-tunnel model installed in the Transonic Dynamics Tunnel at NASA ...
Long, narrow wings are intended to reduce fuel consumption and increase comfort in aircraft. However, wing flutter must be ...
It is easy to forget, sometimes, that aerospace stock Boeing ($BA) has as much to do with aircraft design as it does with ...
Engineers in the United States are betting that ultra-long, ultra-thin wings can make jet travel quieter, smoother and significantly cheaper to operate. Instead of the familiar stubby wings of today’s ...
In 2025, NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, advanced work across aeronautics, Earth science, ...
As part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission, four crew members from three space agencies will launch no earlier than Sunday, Feb. 15.
Airbus describes the A380 as having the quietest cabin in the sky, calling it 'whisper-quiet'. The four-engined long-haul favorite is popular with passengers and crew alike and is reported to be so ...