A San Diego-based company has unveiled a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) fighter jet platform. Shield AI’s new concept is designed for expeditionary and maritime operations in contested ...

American space agency NASA and aircraft maker Boeing have been researching longer and thinner wing designs, they are now ready to share the results.

A Seattle-area startup called Radian Aerospace is fine-tuning the design of its orbital space plane, with an eye toward building a subscale prototype as early as this year. The company is also in the ...

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It’s a bird… It’s a plane… It’s a paper airplane! The world record for the farthest flight by paper airplane has been broken by three aerospace engineers with a paper aircraft that flew a grand total ...

California aerospace startup JetZero got the green light to fly its new "Pathfinder" aircraft. The twinjet features a unique "blended-wing body" and is expected to carry up to 250 people. The wing ...

On May 18, the US Air Force issued a classified solicitation to industry requesting proposals for its Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) aircraft. The aircraft is described by service officials as a ...

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 ...

China appears to have built a new prototype of a mostly ignored military aircraft; a Wing-in-Ground Effect (WIG) plane. Also commonly known by the Russian word ekranoplan, it's a type of aircraft ...