NASA's X-29 tested forward-swept wings and digital fly-by-wire control, advancing unstable aircraft design and high-angle flight research.

Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences was selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as the first awardee in a potential X-plane project designed to explore the use of active ...

Joby Aviation, Inc., which is developing all-electric aircraft for commercial passenger service, and GKN Aerospace have today agreed a multi-year agreement for the supply of thermoplastic flight ...

Experimental aircraft developer Aurora Flight Sciences has completed fabrication of the fuselage for a new jet meant to operate without traditional mechanical control surfaces. Known as the X-65, the ...

Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences has won a US defence contract to develop an experimental aircraft that can fly without traditional control surfaces like rudders, flaps and ailerons. The US ...

DARPA has awarded Aurora Flight Sciences a phase 2 contract for its CRANE (Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors) program, following wind tunnel testing of a small-scale X-plane that ...

DARPA wants to develop and fly a demonstrator aircraft that does not use external mechanical flight controls. Aurora plans to fly an X-Plane in 2025. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ...

This year the world will be celebrating 120 years since the historic first flight of Orville and Wilbur Wright, an event which marked the start of humanity’s expansion into the skies (and later into ...

As a key element in pursuit of the aviation industry’s net-zero emission initiative by 2050, this breakthrough concept has potential to substantially reduce commercial flight emissions The pioneering ...

Both icons of the sky, the A380 and 747 have stark differences in the cockpit.