The variable sweep wing was a groundbreaking approach that allowed aircraft to adapt their shape to different phases of ...

Many of us will have sat and idly watched the flaps and other moving parts of an airliner wing as we travel, and it’s likely that most of you will know the basics of how an aircraft wing works. But ...

The Mirage G was a French prototype aircraft that ultimately never made it into military service. The jet, powered by a potent Pratt & Whitney/Snecma FF 306 turbofan, revolutionized the idea of the ...

But the variable-sweep wing design seems to have gone out of fashion most recently. As the name suggests, “variable-sweep” wings are aircraft wings that can be adjusted to different degrees of ...

Airplanes don't need their wings to be symmetrical to take to the skies. At first, planes were designed with perpendicular wings to the plane's fuselage because every flying creature in nature ...

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. The US ...

Army fixed wing aviation units serve as intelligence and electronic warfare assets, provide timely movement of key personnel to critical locations throughout the theater of operations, and support ...