The United States, Germany, and France have experimented with tail-sitter aircraft. However, the troubled technology was ...

U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory is helping researchers explore novel ways to design aeroplanes ...

Ever wondered why some aircraft tails look completely bizarre? From historical innovations to drag-reducing designs, this ...

The Lockheed XFV Salmon was the less successful of the two designs, due mainly to the lack of a suitably powerful engine.

Photographs of a previously unseen Chinese stealthy platform have surfaced online. Some photos are taken from distance, but ...

The thin lines in the tail of this red snapper are rays that allow the fish to control the shape and stiffness of its fins. Francois Barthelat, CC BY-ND Fish fins are not simple membranes that ...

CRANE for short, the project aims to create an aircraft design with absolutely no moving flight control surfaces on the wings and tail, and no conventional wings, for that matter.

Two key US senators are circulating a bipartisan draft bill that would reform how the Federal Aviation Administration certifies new aircraft in the wake of two fatal Boeing 737 Max crashes that kil… ...

The X-4 Bantam had an odd tail. Rather than using traditional horizontal stabilizers, it had only the single vertical stabilizer. In the late 1940s, when the X-4 was being thought up, aerospace ...

Messerschmitt’s P.1101 had been captured after the war and shipped to Bell Aircraft Corporation. After extensive examination of the Messerschmitt design, engineers Bell developed the X-5.