A paper published last year in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface described a feather as a masterpiece of engineering ...

Despite sharing the Airbus name and cutting-edge engineering, the two aircraft serve very different operational roles. The A380 is tailored for high-density routes and major international hubs, ...

In the 1940s, it looked like flying wings would dominate the skies - faster, lighter, and more efficient than anything before ...

The Horten brothers chased drag reduction to its limit, building flying wings that actually flew and then pitching the Ho 18 as a long-range jet bomber aimed at targets in North America. This episode ...

The Boeing 777X is a massive aircraft that has folding wings, but it can't fly with them like that. Here's why the wings fold ...

The Cutlass was withdrawn from fleet operations by October 1957, three and a half years after entering service. 78 of 320 ...

The Airbus A350-1000 is the largest Airbus currently in production. It is, of course, the largest variant of the Airbus A350 ...

Boeing warned plane owners in 2011 about a broken part that contributed to a UPS plane crash that killed 15 last year but at that point the plane maker didn’t believe it threatened safety, the ...