A scale model of a futuristic "Flying V" aircraft has made a successful maiden flight in Germany. Delft University of Technology in Holland is spearheading the project, which is backed by Dutch ...

Vermont’s BETA Technologies has opened the first large-scale manufacturing facility for electric aircraft in the nation. "Oh, here she comes right down the chute. She’s about four feet off the deck ...

Designed and manufactured by Chinese composite solutions provider HRC, TP1000, a large-scale unmanned transport aircraft with a load capacity of 1 tonne, TP1000, made a 26 minutes maiden flight in ...

Last year we caught wind of an interesting aviation concept cooked up by engineers at TU Delft, which consisted of a novel V-shaped design that promises significant efficiency gains over conventional ...

NASA researchers successfully completed a high-speed taxi test of a scale model of a design that could make future aircraft more efficient by improving how air flows across a wing's surface, saving ...

Radio-controlled scale model aircraft replicas of full-sized aircraft from World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam war and modern planes can be seen in action this weekend at the ...

As the U.S. Air Force is moving to modernize its fleet of aircraft, it is looking to new and innovative designs to help it advance its goals. And one such design is that of a blended-wing body ...