Its radically swept wing, huge wing-to-fuselage fairing ... and demonstration pilots at Cessna agree that the winglets do not change the flying qualities of the X at all. Performance, yes, but ...

Millions of consumers trust airlines with their lives each day, but few passengers understand how these massive flying ... Winglets are the vertical tips at the end of a plane's wing, and they ...

At the end of just about every commercial airliner’s wings is an important piece of technology that can be easy to miss. The ...

Lancaster patented "wing endplates" — rudimentary attachments that help reduce drag at the wingtips, though not nearly as effectively as winglets do. Wind tunnel tests have shown that winglets ...

This week in Hawthorne, Calif. Jack Northrop proudly showed his Flying Wing bomber, which looked like a giant boomerang, 172 feet from tip to tip. The unconventional XB-35 is the first of 15 which ...

The flying wing concept (which has no explicit fuselage ... three jet engines producing 50 pounds of thrust each and had winglets that served as rudders for roll and yaw control, a trait the ...

Winglets reduce wingtip vortices, the twin tornados formed by the difference between the pressure on the upper surface of an airplane's wing and that on the lower surface. High pressure on the ...

The flying wing design is niche and rare today, but the concept has been the focus of study for 100 years. The flying wing design is intuitive but relatively rare. As the name implies, a flying ...

The new technique: arc-welding of magnesium. Result: the further development of the so-called flying wing—a weird, batlike plane with no tail, no fuselage and an extraordinary efficiency (TIME ...

Delta Air Lines is partnering with aerospace startup JetZero to introduce a revolutionary aircraft design that has the potential to transform the future of commercial flying. This new design ...

It is similar in appearance and mission to its direct predecessor, the B-2 Spirit, and demonstrates the ascendancy of the flying wing design for the most sophisticated bombers. But for all its ...

After years of dreamy and not always credible talk of skies filled with flying, nonpolluting electric taxis, the aviation industry is preparing to deliver a future that it says is now just around ...