Aviation is not about traveling from one place to another. It is about the airplanes themselves. From the flying machines to ...

A video for the 80th anniversary of the Skunk Works shows, through renderings and sketches, the past, the present and the future of the secretive division of Lockheed Martin. To celebrate 80 years of ...

One might think that with these radical changes in aircraft design approach that the Celera approach was abandoned – otherwise why such fundamental and dramatic changes? It’s also strange to see the ...

Following a series of secret tests, Airbus has revealed a futuristic “blended wing” commercial aircraft design that promises to cut fuel consumption up to 20%. The French aircraft maker rolled out a ...

Aviation is entering a strange but exciting phase. For decades, most passenger aircraft have ...

Deep in Nevada’s Mojave Desert, where classified projects have taken to the skies for over seven decades, a mysterious thermal image has emerged that could represent the next leap in stealth ...

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A hybrid-electric aviation company has unveiled a new conceptual aircraft design for next-generation airliners.

The basic design of commercial airplanes hasn’t changed much in the past 60 years. Modern airliners like the Boeing 787 and the Airbus A350 have the same general shape as the Boeing 707 and the ...

The concept of blended-wing aircraft – where fuselage and wing are all one structure – is not new. But this radical design might soon be a credible concept for airliners. In March 2025, a small ...

Every aspect of next generation aircraft design can be accomplished today in the cloud, with engineers across hundreds of aerospace industry suppliers now using a common new set of all-digital tools ...