Key design change coincides with a funding raise that Natilus says will support future wind tunnel and flight testing.

The jet's wing flex allows the aircraft to withstand challenging outside conditions while limiting disturbance for passengers onboard.

The Boeing 777X's folding wingtips are one of the aircraft's most innovative design features.

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Wings are a vital part of the aerodynamic performance of aircraft. Their design has changed over the years and could change significantly in the future if truce-braced wings or blended wing bodies ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Blended wing" aircraft could be the future of commercial aviation. Airbus and the startups JetZero and Natilus are leading ...

More than a century of aviation has given us humans certain preconceptions when it comes to the machines that fly in our sky. Just take the shape of an aircraft into consideration. The simple mention ...

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The 1980s marked an era of unconventional thinking in aviation design, giving birth to groundbreaking concepts that aimed to revolutionize commercial air travel. Among these was an aircraft with a ...

Aurora Flight Sciences has finished windtunnel testing an experimental fan-in-wing design for a Pentagon X-plane competition. The Boeing subsidiary says it recently wrapped up stability and control ...