On October 28, 1954, the North American FJ-4 Fury made its first flight, marking a major leap in carrier-based jet design.

Today, Lufthansa remains the world's largest operator of the passenger version of the Boeing 747, using the 747-8I on its ...

The experimental Su-47 Russian demonstrator fighter jet was somewhat of a short-lived demonstrator, yet numerous public accounts suggest that its innovations propelled development of the country's two ...

The tendency to pitch up violently, or enter an uncontrollable dive at the stall led to pilots flying the approach into ...

All the Facts: The Russian Su-47, with its unique forward-swept wings, stands out as one of the most recognizable aircraft in the world. While forward-swept wings were explored in mid-century aircraft ...

Flown by NASA X-59 lead pilot Nils Larson, the much-anticipated first flight of the Lockheed Martin-built aircraft began at 8 ...

In autumn 2024 and May 2025, the Institute of Aeroelasticity had the opportunities to conduct a ground vibration test on two flying wing gliders. As similar as the aircraft are in terms of their ...

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 ...

But the variable-sweep wing design seems to have gone out of fashion most recently. As the name suggests, “variable-sweep” wings are aircraft wings that can be adjusted to different degrees of ...