The C-130 Hercules is one of the most beloved aircraft in military service today. Since the plane was introduced in 1956 as America's next airlifter, military and civilian organizations have found ...

Avro Canada proposed a flat-rising VTOL day fighter for a US Navy program intended to let smaller ships operate fighter cover ...

While Airbus expects its next narrowbody jet will have a traditional tube-and-wing configuration, it has not abandoned the idea of an eventual blended-wing-body (BWB) design for a larger jet. That is ...

Suppose the identical quality that renders a fighter aircraft revolutionary is also the one that keeps it from ever actually flying as a weapon of war. The Sukhoi Su-47 Berkut is a stark case history ...

American firm Natilus has just introduced its latest aircraft concept, the Horizon Evo, built around a blended wing body design. According to the company, this radically smoother profile could ...

Tom O’Leary concedes that most suppliers were sceptical when his start-up, JetZero, approached them a couple of years ago with a business plan to challenge Airbus and Boeing with a bold new commercial ...

Horizon Aircraft's Cavorite X7 already sported a radical design, even within the wild world of hybrid eVTOLs. That design has now been updated, however, for enhanced aerodynamics, cruising performance ...

This unique blended-wing airliner promises not only to reduce fuel burn and emissions by an enormous 50% - but thanks to a new partnership, it could also be the best chance we've seen to deliver ...