NASA recently launched a new program with Boeing and aeronautics company Area-I to test wings equipped with actuators that would allow them to fold during flight. The folding wings project, called ...

The agency just performed a test that uses shape memory alloy to fold a drone’s wings in flight. NASA has created a lightweight shape-shifting metal that could be used to fold aircraft wings–which ...

In space, NASA is grappling with potential ISS funding issues, but on Earth, the agency is working hard to improve the efficiency of flight via wings that can fold while an aircraft is flying. It's ...

The recent flight series, which took place at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California, was part of the Spanwise Adaptive Wing project, or SAW. This project aims to validate the use of a ...

Aircraft wings tremble mid-air, as all of us who sat on an airplane witnessed first hand. Although a normal event, it is however scary. How would you feel then if you saw the wing on the craft you are ...

The fixed-wing plane may be a thing of the past if NASA's latest venture is successful. The space agency as part of the "Spanwise Adaptive Wing" (SAW) project recently began testing planes with the ...

German firm Liebherr-Aerospace Lindenberg is to supply crucial components for the folding wing-tip mechanism on the Boeing 777X. The 3.5m folding tips will reduce the type’s wing span to less than 65m ...