A test flight of the SOLAR Plane V4 flying wing, highlighting solar-powered aviation design and efficient long-endurance ...

Aurora Flight Sciences and DARPA hope to see the X-65 drone fly next year after suffering delays and cost growth.

Aurora Flight Sciences just announced that the triangular wings of the X-65 have arrived at its Virginia assembly facility, ...

Commercial airlines spend a lot on fuel each year. Some estimates for 2024 put the figure at $291 billion, and that's up from $271 billion in 2023. We can only assume that number climbed even higher ...

DARPA's X-65, that replaces conventional aircraft flight controls with puffs of air, is coming together at Boeing subsidiary Aurora’s Bridgeport, West Virginia facility. The fuselage is taking shape ...

Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences has begun installing the wings on the X-65, an ...

Sikorsky has revealed the ‘Nomad’ trade name for its family of autonomous rotor-blown wing aircraft, with full-scale testing of the Group 3 variant expected in the coming months as the manufacturer ...

Over the past ten years or so, American space agency NASA has become a major player in the aviation industry, getting itself involved in all sorts of projects meant to inform the design of the ...

Close-up of NASA's Cross Flow Attenuated Natural Laminar Flow (CATNLF) scale model on runway - NASA/Christopher LC Clark Commercial airlines spend a lot on fuel each year. Some estimates for 2024 put ...