A new type of passenger plane will adopt a design that blends wings into the aircraft's body, which its creators say will cut ...

Aeroplanes rely on four different scientific forces to fly - thrust, drag, weight and lift - all of which act against each other. When they are all balanced, a plane will fly in a nice ...

Salvage workers removed an engine and the fuselage of the passenger jet that crashed into the river last week after colliding ...

Read about the latest tests conducted with the X-66 aircraft, NASA’s experimental airliner being developed with Boeing.

Lift dumpers or spoilers are devices used to reduce an aeroplane's lift, thereby increasing drag and are commonly located on the wings. It is either deployed or retracted in default.

An curved arrow pointing right. Ever wonder why airplane passengers are asked to lift up their window shades before takeoff and landing? A flight attendant explains why they do this. Follow Tech ...

He also explores the science of flight and discusses how lift, drag and gravity all influence getting airborne. What are the most important things to think about when designing a plane?

They pushed the model plane to seven times the speed of sound and found it performed surprisingly well, with low drag and high lift. The team, at the academy’s Key Laboratory of High Temperature ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is leading the removal effort, which will first focus on retrieving the mangled passenger plane before turning to the helicopter and its associated debris.

This is because switching to a novel plane design has been deemed commercially risky. Blended-wing aircraft, by contrast, can reduce fuel consumption and be quieter, thanks to higher lift-to-drag ...