With concerns over fuel efficiency, emissions reduction, and sustainable air travel, aircraft manufacturers are exploring innovative designs that could revolutionize the future of flight. Among these ...

One of them is called a blended wing body, and it's a type of aircraft that has no clear distinction between body and wings, although they both exist. Blended wing body aircraft come with several ...

However, Northrop Grumman, with JetZero, may be about to flip the script, making a military aircraft that could also be the next generation commercial passenger jet. The United States Air Force has ...

and trusted partner aircraft in Australia,” the DoD said. According to Naomi Smith, director of Sustainment Operations for BDA, Australia's support of NZDF P-8A Poseidons “builds on [BDA's ...

Delta Air Lines and JetZero are partnering to develop a commercial blended-wing-body (BWB) aircraft that would be 50 percent more fuel efficient than those in current operation, the carrier has ...

One of them is the so-called Sustainable Flight Demonstrator (SFD), which even if overall still looks like the aircraft we've known for ages, it will use a new kind of wing that's supposed to help ...

“Combining helicopter and airplane flight characteristics onto a flying wing reflects Sikorsky’s drive to innovate next-generation VTOL UAS aircraft that can fly faster and farther than ...

Travelers weighed in on air safety after an American Airlines plane diverted mid-flight and landed at Denver International Airport, sending passengers fleeing onto a wing in a fraught evacuation amid ...

“Combining helicopter and airplane flight characteristics onto a flying wing reflects Sikorsky’s drive to innovate next-generation VTOL UAS aircraft that can fly faster and farther than ...

A FATHER and his two girls survived a night on the wing of their aircraft after it crashed into a frozen lake. The 38-year-old and his daughters were spotted by a volunteer pilot responding to ...

UDRI's System and Sustainment Engineering personnel specialize in engineering problem-solving for field and depot maintenance issues for structural, electrical, and mechanical systems, including ...

UDRI conducts research to help the Air Force foresee and avoid failures of vital structural and electrical components in multiple aircraft platforms. UDRI's Project Management Professionals (PMP) ...