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 wing ...
A rare prototype of the Flying Wing bomber will be a center attraction this weekend at the annual Wings Over Wine Country Air Show. "Most people will never get another chance to see this plane, let ...
In the 1940s, Jack Northrop’s flying wings were meant to revolutionize aviation - sleek, fast, and efficient. But innovation ...
The triangle-shaped "blended-wing body" plane ditches the traditional tube-and-wing design for one giant, sweeping wing with the cabin built inside.
Today, aircraft wings are increasingly designed to prioritize stealth characteristics over raw speed—giving them a smooth, unbroken connection to the aircraft’s main fuselage. The wing of a fighter ...
The B-2 bomber was the last American heavy bomber built in the 20th Century. While Boeing was the prime contractor with the B-52 and it bought Rockwell's B-1 building arm, it was Northrop-Grumman who ...
Chinese media described the large unmanned flying wing drone as a stealth-centric, long endurance, persistent reconnaissance and early warning aircraft. China’s massive CH-7 UAV was captured flying ...
Longer, thinner wings are on the horizon as NASA and Boeing continue to research what the future of aviation could look like ...
Official descriptions suggest the CH-7 has an ISTAR role, which would allow it to send back data on enemy vessels in the western Pacific and guide long-range maritime strike missiles. China’s CH-7 ...
Continuing a recent trend of announcing significant developments in military aviation around the end-of-year, China has revealed the first flight of another experimental uncrewed jet. This time it is ...