In one of the latest breakthroughs of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aviation, Sikorsky has successfully completed a test flight with its Rotor Blown Wing prototype drone. The small drone was ...

A rendering of the experimental craft released by Aurora in 2024 had depicted three fan-in-wing rotors: two amidships and one centred near the front of the aircraft. An animation indicates the ...

Boeing and NASA will pause work on a new, experimental aircraft design ... Boeing will continue to study the thin-wing technology, but the aircraft project as a whole will be put on hold, Boeing ...

Based on a heavily modified McDonnell Douglas MD-90, the X-66 was intended to demonstrate a truss-braced version of the thin wing at full scale. The experimental aircraft formed the flagship of ...

One of America’s leading aircraft designers, Jack Northrop, showed keen interest in the Horten brothers’ flying-wing glider back ... there’s no evidence this experimental jet, still ...

United Airlines (NASDAQ:UAL) aims to be one of the first U.S. commercial carriers to fly passengers on a futuristic blended wing body ("BWB") aircraft, thanks to its investment in startup JetZero ...

The fatal crash, the second in five months involving that model aircraft, puts a spotlight on such experimental and amateur ... engine Van’s RV-10, a fixed-wing airplane, departed from Lancaster ...

United’s investment in JetZero includes a ‘path’ to acquire as many as 200 blended wing body Z4 aircraft. [Courtesy: United Airlines] United Airlines is looking to add a sleek new airframe ...

The NTSB is investigating the crash, which they said involved an "experimental MX Aircraft MXS." Officials said he had been set to perform at the Air Power Over Hampton Roads air show at Langley ...

What makes the JetZero Z4 special is the blended wing body (BWB) design it adopts. By integrating both the wings and the body of the aircraft into a seemingly single structure, thus achieving a ...