Boeing spent Wednesday evening drawing an airplane on the sky. The aerospace giant was testing a upgraded engine for its 787 Dreamliner for long endurance flights and reliability and the company ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Airplane Wings That Change Shape Like A Bird's Have Scales Like A Fish. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2004 / 04 / 040422000037.htm ...

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.

Electric-powered aircraft may seem like a vague, future promise in the pursuit of decarbonizing aviation, but a handful of battery-powered planes are already in flight. These days, it’s mostly limited ...

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.

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 ...