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How are modern aircraft wings designed?

Today, aircraft wings are increasingly designed to prioritize stealth characteristics over raw speed—giving them a smooth, ...
The V-280 Valor performs a flight demonstration in Arlington, Texas, Oct. 28, 2020. (Luke J. Allen/U.S. Army) The service has had “unprecedented access to the design [in] real time” of FLRAA through ...
One might think that with these radical changes in aircraft design approach that the Celera approach was abandoned – otherwise why such fundamental and dramatic changes? It’s also strange to see the ...
As fighter jets have grown more and more expensive, pressure has mounted on modern air forces to enable those aircraft to ...
International Light Aircraft Design Competition is one of the Society’s flagship international competitions. It gives students and early-career professionals the opportunity to design a light aircraft ...
A video for the 80th anniversary of the Skunk Works shows, through renderings and sketches, the past, the present and the future of the secretive division of Lockheed Martin. To celebrate 80 years of ...
Saab‘s innovation accelerates the development of attritable CCA (Collaborative Combat Systems) platforms through additive ...
Aurora Flight Sciences' uncrewed, blended-wing design for an experimental vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft will move into the next design phase after a DARPA contract award. More companies could ...
Famously, Airbus surpassed Boeing to take the crown for producing the most prolific airliner in history when the A320 family ...
Team FIU reached the height of success, winning second place in mission performance and second overall at the international SAE Aero Design Competition in June. Nineteen teams from across the United ...
There isn't a single airliner that can replicate all of the Boeing 757's capabilities, but perhaps the market doesn't require ...