Airbus has just bolted a set of oversized wing extensions onto an Airbus A321neo test aircraft, and the outcome of that experiment answers one specific question: can the manufacturer's next narrowbody ...

When you hold your hand up to the wind, you can feel the pressure. However, you cannot see where or how much an airplane wing ...

Commercial airlines spend a lot on fuel each year. Some estimates for 2024 put the figure at $291 billion, and that's up from $271 billion in 2023. We can only assume that number climbed even higher ...

Over the past ten years or so, American space agency NASA has become a major player in the aviation industry, getting itself involved in all sorts of projects meant to inform the design of the ...

Over the next three years, Airbus will design, build and flight test full scale wing extensions. These will be installed on an A321neo aircraft and used to evaluate how the different wing geometries ...

Airbus’s UpNext division has shown off the initial installation of the ‘eXtra Performance Wing’ on a Cessna Citation VII executive jet. UpNext is the future technologies division of the airframer, and ...

Before Censys Technologies flies a Sentaero aircraft, it performs engineering work on the ground to ensure that the platform will perform every time. Recently, John Tillo and Dr. J. Gordon Leishman ...

Come the start of next decade, the U.S. Army will begin replacing its already aging fleet of UH-60 Black Hawks with something called the MV-75 Cheyenne II. The change is a pretty big one, as we're not ...

There's no denying just how critical aircraft wings are. For one, they provide storage for an aircraft's fuel that keeps it a safe distance from the cabin containing passengers and crew. This saved 80 ...