It’s a bird… It’s a plane… It’s a paper airplane! The world record for the farthest flight by paper airplane has been broken by three aerospace engineers with a paper aircraft that flew a grand total ...

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The Boeing 737 MAX's design is ultimately flawed by the fact that the aircraft sits far too close to the ground. As the engine fan needed to be large enough to deliver modern efficiency, Boeing had to ...

American space agency NASA and aircraft maker Boeing have been researching longer and thinner wing designs, they are now ...

A Seattle-area startup called Radian Aerospace is fine-tuning the design of its orbital space plane, with an eye toward building a subscale prototype as early as this year. The company is also in the ...

California aerospace startup JetZero got the green light to fly its new "Pathfinder" aircraft. The twinjet features a unique "blended-wing body" and is expected to carry up to 250 people. The wing ...

China appears to have built a new prototype of a mostly ignored military aircraft; a Wing-in-Ground Effect (WIG) plane. Also commonly known by the Russian word ekranoplan, it's a type of aircraft ...

This video shows a passenger plane with a football-themed design attempting to land at Manchester Airport before trying again ...

On May 18, the US Air Force issued a classified solicitation to industry requesting proposals for its Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) aircraft. The aircraft is described by service officials as a ...

The V-280 Valor performs a flight demonstration in Arlington, Texas, Oct. 28, 2020. (Luke J. Allen/U.S. Army) The service has had “unprecedented access to the design [in] real time” of FLRAA through ...

There were no casualties aboard the Delta flight that crashed and flipped upside down at the Toronto airport on Monday evening, which experts attribute to modern plane safety design. Investigation ...