Peek out the window on an A350 flight and you’ll see wings that bend, flex, and adapt in order to make long-haul flying smoother and more efficient.
Natilus' futuristic "blended-wing body" plane builds the cabin into the wing.Natilus Another airline is placing bets on the radical "flying wing" plane that industry professionals foresee as the ...
The X-76 is not intended for mass production or combat service. Instead, it will serve as a testbed for new aerial ...
Folding wings are not something that is often associated with commercial aviation, but the 777X breaks this norm. How do these systems work?
DARPA has assigned the designation X-76 to the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) project, a Bell proof-of-concept technology demonstrator for a high-speed tiltrotor. The DARPA ...
The X-76 is the latest in a long series of experimental X-planes developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
HopFlyt has built and flown two 10-ft. wingspan prototypes. Credit: HopFlyt Developed in the 1940s by American inventor William Ray Custer, the channel wing aircraft features a main wing with a ...
DARPA’s X-76 experimental aircraft aims to combine helicopter flexibility with jet-like speeds and runway-independent flight.