Tiny flying robots have always faced a brutal trade-off between agility and battery life, burning through power just to stay ...

DARPA's X-65, that replaces conventional aircraft flight controls with puffs of air, is coming together at Boeing subsidiary Aurora’s Bridgeport, West Virginia facility. The fuselage is taking shape ...

Over the past ten years or so, American space agency NASA has become a major player in the aviation industry, getting itself involved in all sorts of projects meant to inform the design of the ...

Engineers are closing in on a long imagined goal in aviation, wings that can subtly change shape in midair instead of relying ...

For a cargo plane, you might think that the general rule would be a simple one: The bigger, the better. The aircraft's primary role, of course, is to deliver supplies, equipment, troops, or whatever ...