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 Boeing 787 Dreamliner is Boeing's star airliner. While the 777X has been delayed by years and the 737 MAX has been engulfed in controversy after controversy, the 787 continues to impress with its ...

An eventual successor to current regional turboprops could feature a strut-braced, high-aspect-ratio composite wing with morphing leading and trailing edges, depending on the outcome of an ongoing ...

The Clean Aviation HERWINGT project is developing a novel, ultra-high performance wing for a hybrid-electric regional aircraft, including thermoplastic composites (TPC) and morphing composite wing ...

MIT and NASA researchers have developed a morphing airplane wing that goes back to the future: The entire wing bends and twists, much as the Wright brothers' Flyer 1 did more than a century ago.

Embraer is working to complete the fuselage and empennage of a remotely piloted technology demonstration platform following successful initial fatigue tests of the aircraft’s composite wing. The wing ...

The Airbus C295 Flight Test Bed 2 (FTB#2) successfully performed its flight campaign, testing a new semi-morphing wing, as well as on-ground structural tests of a novel composite outer wing box.