Some airplanes are graceful, beautiful machines that soar effortlessly through the sky. Others, not so much. Which airplanes ...

In the early 1940s, Lockheed engineers designed what could have been the world’s first operational jet fighter—the L-133 Starjet. With an advanced axial-flow jet engine, swept-wing design, and a speed ...

With concerns over fuel efficiency, emissions reduction, and sustainable air travel, aircraft manufacturers are exploring innovative designs that could revolutionize the future of flight. Among these ...

Like everything else around us, aviation is changing too, and it does so at a rapid pace. From new ways to power the planes to new and more efficient shapes of airplanes' bodies, the biggest ...

On 10 March, Sikorsky disclosed that in January it completed 30 “transitional” flights of the rotor-blown wing demonstrator. The twin-prop aircraft, with a 3.1m (10.3ft) wingspan, takes off ...

The Florida Air National Guard’s 125th Fighter Wing started its week by becoming the fourth Air National Guard unit to be equipped with fifth-generation fighter aircraft, according to a unit ...

Sixth-generation aircraft that appeared in the skies over ... internal weapons bays and blended-wing fuselages. Communist party authorities in Beijing have not officially acknowledged the new ...

The leader of the YPG, the U.S.-backed Syrian wing of the PKK, initially welcomed a call by the latter’s jailed leader to lay down arms, but the group will apparently not follow in the steps of its ...

The manufacturer built the initial design as a twin-propeller namesake ... adding a new wing center section and the addition of winglets to the tips of the wings. After a combined total of 442 ...

Natalie Fiorilli/Air Force) FORT WALTON BEACH, Florida — Air Force Special Operations Command has dubbed its newest aircraft Skyraider II, a nod to the Cold War-era propeller plane that ...

"The national carrier is looking towards obtaining six propeller aircraft for domestic and for short haul International routes," the Deputy Minister said. The airline hopes to increase its revenue ...