JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – You may one day board a plane where the wings will look very different. Future airplanes are ditching traditional wing design for something sleeker—long, thin wings braced with ...

It could be said that the invention of the airplane is the ultimate triumph of mankind's ingenuity over the forces of nature. Despite our own lack of wings, we took to the skies and made it one of our ...

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Airplanes are one of the best examples of thoughtful engineering. Most of the things you find on an aircraft have a special purpose behind them, and there will rarely be a feature that has been added ...

Today, aircraft wings are increasingly designed to prioritize stealth characteristics over raw speed—giving them a smooth, unbroken connection to the aircraft’s main fuselage. The wing of a fighter ...

NASA successfully conducted the first flight of a new wing design that could pave the way for more fuel-efficient commercial ...

Wing flaps are movable surfaces located on the trailing edge of the wings and are typically deployed during specific phases of takeoff and landing. The majority of planes have these, whether jets or ...

Fidmac’s role within the project focuses on robotic lamination of composite materials, an advanced technology that allows it to build complex wing structures with unprecedented precision and ...