High-end gliders achieve lift-to-drag ratios of over 50 ... Boeing has noted that with the high wing mounting of the truss-braced design, such aircraft “could eventually accommodate advanced ...

The Fan-in-wing (FIW) concept combines an embedded lift fan with a blended wing body design, enabling the aircraft ... This would be a high-speed, stealthy, and runway-independent transportation ...

Electra.aero, Inc. (Electra), the aerospace company pioneering Direct Aviation, has successfully completed powered wind tunnel testing for its nine-passenger EL9 Ultra Short hybrid-electric aircraft, ...

The objective of SPRINT is to create and demonstrate an X-plane that integrates high-speed ... lift fans within the wings of the aircraft and adopting a blended wing body design, the technology ...

The flying wing design is ... into impressively high speed. As aircraft approach the sound barrier, Bernoulli’s principle, the physics principle allowing wings to generate lift, starts to ...

Aurora Flight Sciences on Oct. 8 unveiled new details of a notional operational variant of the fan-in-wing concept ... Aurora Shows Very High-Speed, Vertical Lift Concept Design is published ...

The B-21 bomber pairs cutting edge tech with a throwback aircraft design. It is based on a visionary aircraft design that dates back to World War II. That aircraft, the YB-49, minimized drag but ...

The second of four designs has been revealed in the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) X-plane competition being held by the Pentagon’s secretive technology development agency.

fan-in-blended-wing body design for DARPA's Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) program aimed at producing a high-speed VTOL aircraft for Special Forces missions. The idea behind ...

A traditional airplane gets the lift it needs to ... helicopter does not have a wing like this. But there’s a reason why Bell chose to incorporate it in their design, and that’s because ...