Long before engineers spun 3D models of airplanes on screens, they designed them with pencils, rulers, and plenty of patience ...

A second J-36 airframe has emerged with significant changes to its inlets, gear, and exhaust, offering clues to its state of development.

“Siemens Xcelerator gives us the functionality that we need today, but it’s also a platform that’s connected to all the ...

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 ...

What is the perfect commercial aircraft? Is it a long-haul 600 seaters like the A380? Or is it a smaller 100 seater ...

The Lotus UAS design in some ways resembles features of the newly revealed Lockheed Martin Project Vectis, with a long, slender fuselage positioned forward of the leading edges of the wings, capped by ...

The U.S. Navy’s aging Nimitz-class carriers, while historically successful, are plagued by significant design and operational ...

Aurora Flight Sciences' uncrewed, blended-wing design for an experimental vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft will move into the next design phase after a DARPA contract award. More companies could ...

LONDON—The design of the fighter aircraft at the heart of the Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) needs to have “full-spectrum” ...

During WWII, engineers produced some of the most iconic aircraft in history. From sleek fighters to hulking steel beasts -- ...

The US's deployment of a $13 billion aircraft carrier to the Caribbean is sparking concerns that the US is on the brink of ...