The largest aircraft ever built by wingspan does not look like a conventional airplane at all. It has two full fuselages ...

Are longer wings the secret to making future aircraft far more efficient? Airbus is testing just that, hoping to pioneer the ...

Sikorsky and Lockheed Martin’s decision to build a hybrid tilt-wing technology demonstrator is a significant step forward for eVTOL aircraft. We are in a unique position to say this, as Dufour ...

Led by Airbus subsidiary and technology incubator UpNext (Madrid, Spain), the eXtra Performance Wing project, an initiative aimed at redefining aircraft wing technology to enhance flight performance ...

Man has long tried to imitate birds in building all types of aircraft, to varying degrees of success. A new concept aircraft from Airbus, now in its second stage of testing, is taking biomimicry to a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Crews work on the wing of an Airbus A380 aircraft. The A380, the world's largest passenger plane, has faced similar emergency ...

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 European Union's top airline safety regulator has ordered the inspection of over a dozen Airbus planes after cracks were discovered in key wing components of some aircraft. On Monday, June 22, the ...