As the name of this type of vessel suggests, helicopter carriers are a subtype of aircraft carriers that are designed to carry rotary-wing aircraft — specifically, helicopters. This means that ...

The Wings of a Modern Aircraft. The wings of a modern aircraft can be designed as a combination of different types of materials, depending on their specific structural function. The structure of the ...

The promise: A wing made this way could allow future aircraft wing designs to become far more flexible, according to the scientists at NASA and MIT who worked together on the research. The design ...

Since 2008, NASA and Boeing have been researching a fascinating wing design that’s different from anything you’ve flown in before.

An innovative team of engineers from NASA joined up with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) grad students, among others, to improve upon the traditional airplane wing. The researchers ...

The NASA AD-1 was the spiritual successor to unflown wartime designs from German aircraft manufacturers Blohm & Voss and Messerschmitt for aircraft whose wings could be rotated in flight around a ...

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 ...

Airbus is testing a new type of experimental wing that the company hopes could revolutionize how airplanes fly. The new extra performance wing demonstrator took off for the first time on November ...