Aircraft wing flex takes center stage in this planespotting video, revealing how much airplane wings can bend during flight.

Airplane wings show their remarkable flexibility in this aviation video, revealing just how much they can bend as forces act ...

GKN Aerospace has won a contract from Triumph Aerostructures – Vought Aircraft Division, a subsidiary of Triumph Group, Inc., covering the design, build and supply of composite winglets and ailerons ...

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company’s Advanced Development Programs sector is proposing a morphing wing design that can be locked into either an expanded or contracted position. Key to enabling this ...

A DLR-developed workflow sizes trailing-edge flap structures in minutes, revealing that optimal support and spar placements ...

The Breakthrough Laminar Aircraft Demonstrator in Europe (BLADE) project is part of the Clean Sky Smart Fixed Wing Aircraft (SWFA) programme, an extensive, 50% European Union-funded, multi-partner ...

Described by Northrop Grumman as a sixth-generation bomber, the US Air Force's new B-21 Raider pairs the most modern stealth and targeting technology with what is actually a throwback-style design. It ...

Fighter jets typically house their main radars behind a radome in the nose, while conventional airborne early-warning aircraft often carry large radar arrays in prominent structures above the fuselage ...

Skoltech researchers have created a digital twin of a polymer composite material with a 2D sensor and successfully used it for structural integrity testing. The new technology can be used to ...

A recently granted patent (Publication Number: US11772780B2) describes an innovative airfoil structure for aircraft. The airfoil structure includes a load-carrying member that extends spanwise and ...

Australia’s ATSB concluded that a 2019 fatal Cessna P210 crash, caused by a wing spar failure, would likely have been prevented if Cessna hadn't relaxed its inspection requirements in 2011 from flight ...