The go-to aircraft when it comes to ridiculing Second World War German aircraft design, the Bv 141 was an extremely efficient ...

The Douglas X-3 Stiletto was a sleek experimental aircraft built to explore new aerodynamic designs and technologies for sustained supersonic flight. The X-3 project took birth in the late 1940s and ...

"Ground effect" is an aviation phenomenon that describes what happens when a plane gets close to the ground, like when it's about to land. As the aircraft skims along a surface — whether hard, soft, ...

The U.S. Navy has quietly written a small but telling check to a company working on a solar‑electric aircraft that can stay aloft for months. By putting $1.4 million behind Skydweller’s experimental ...

In this episode, we explore five of the most unusual aircraft in Russian service today, from airliners pressed into leading ...

Because it's a major player in the aerospace industry, there was no way for Boeing to miss out on the promises of what shapes up to be an exciting and very lucrative vertical take-off and landing ...

Modern airliner designs date from the 1950s: a metal tube and swept-back wings with jet engines slung underneath. They get you where you’re going and back. But after decades of research, something ...