Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury suggests that future passenger aircraft could adopt a stealthy blended wing body design similar to ...

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) says it's time for some airplanes to drop elevators, flaps and rudders for flight control. DARPA's new X-plane concept will remove these ...

A San Diego-based company has unveiled a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) fighter jet platform. Shield AI’s new concept is designed for expeditionary and maritime operations in contested ...

The Pacific Ocean is vast, and when it comes to planning for how to fight a war in and across it, the United States is turning to a new airframe design—one that promises more efficient flight. In an ...

International Light Aircraft Design Competition is one of the Society’s flagship international competitions. It gives students and early-career professionals the opportunity to design a light aircraft ...

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A Seattle-area startup called Radian Aerospace is fine-tuning the design of its orbital space plane, with an eye toward building a subscale prototype as early as this year. The company is also in the ...

On May 18, the US Air Force issued a classified solicitation to industry requesting proposals for its Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) aircraft. The aircraft is described by service officials as a ...

It’s a bird… It’s a plane… It’s a paper airplane! The world record for the farthest flight by paper airplane has been broken by three aerospace engineers with a paper aircraft that flew a grand total ...

There were no casualties aboard the Delta flight that crashed and flipped upside down at the Toronto airport on Monday evening, which experts attribute to modern plane safety design. Investigation ...