Following a series of secret tests, Airbus has revealed a futuristic “blended wing” commercial aircraft design that promises to cut fuel consumption up to 20%. The French aircraft maker rolled out a ...

Luminary Cloud has launched Shift-Wing, an AI-powered model and dataset designed to accelerate the conceptual design of advanced aircraft wings, from subsonic all the way up to transonic speeds. The ...

Air travel may just get a little more fuel-efficient––and infinitely cooler––thanks to a new prototype from Airbus. The European aerospace company has revealed a futuristic airplane design with a ...

At this year's Singapore Air Show, Airbus has taken the wraps off its latest Blended Wing Body (BWB) scale model demonstrator aircraft. Called the Model Aircraft for Validation and Experimentation of ...

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Van's Aircraft's new RV-15, a high-wing, all-metal kit airplane designed for backcountry flying, completed its first flight. This is Van's first high-wing design; the prototype's functionality is ...

The aviation industry’s profit margins have been reduced to the bare minimum over the past two decades, and commercial air travel now contributes 2.5% of all global CO2 emissions. In short, we really ...

Since the Wright Brothers first took flight at Kitty Hawk, passenger airplanes have mainly resembled a flying cigar tube with wings, a ubiquitous design that has defined aviation for nearly a century.

The age of the flying cylinder may be coming to an end. Airbus has unveiled a blended wing demonstrator called MAVERIC (Model Aircraft for Validation and Experimentation of Robust Innovative Controls) ...