Engineers and designers are giving commercial aircraft a makeover, in a bid to make them faster, greener and more efficient. Look up into the skies today at a passing aeroplane and the view is not ...

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NASA, MIT, and other institutions are working on a plane that looks radically different from, say, a Boeing 737. The craft takes the shape of a flying wing, similar to a NASA plane called the X-48 ...

From futuristic cabin layouts to new aerodynamic shapes, these concept planes reveal what’s possible for future air travel.

Boeing has begun production of the highly anticipated Boeing 777-8F, as it manufactured the first spar - a long beam that ...

A new wing changes shape in response to stress. That could make for more-efficient, flexible aircraft. ... (5 meters) wing, which is about as big as a wing on a single-seater airplane.

During the flight, pilots flew the plane in a pattern resembling the shape of a 747, ... The 747 is one of the longest-serving aircraft flying commercially. It entered service since 1970.

A new type of airplane wing assembled like a jigsaw puzzle could make for lighter, more efficient aircraft. NASA and Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers tested the wing design in a ...