The airliner you board in the future could look a lot different from today's, with longer, thinner wings that provide a smoother ride while saving fuel. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

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 ...

NASA used the F-111 Aardvark to test supercritical wings, fly-by-wire and adaptive wing tech, shaping modern aircraft design ...

Making the wings on passenger jets thinner and longer can go a long way toward reducing drag and making them more efficient, but they vibrate like crazy. Engineers at NASA and Boeing are now tackling ...

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 ...