In 2014 and 2015, at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, a strange-looking twin-boom aircraft ...

NASA is taking no chances with flight tests of a full-scale flexible flap designed to demonstrate the potential noise and drag benefits of a seamless, morphing structure. The deformable flaps have ...

A University of Michigan engineering professor may be well on his way to reshaping the trajectory of aviation across the globe. For the last 20 years, Sridhar Kota, owner and founder of the Ann ...

ANN ARBOR (WWJ) --An Ann Arbor company is giving the aviation industry its long-sought, elusive goal of practical seamless control surface technologies. A variable geometry airfoil, called FlexFoil, ...

Aviation Partners FlexSys, in discussions with four OEMs about possibilities, has identified a KC-135 inboard flap as one of the first applications. With the pliability of modern aircraft skin ...

German Aerospace Center engineers have tested flap-less morphing wings on the Proteus aircraft, advancing Hyperelastic Trailing Edge Morphing technology. The system uses fiber-reinforced composites ...

A small US firm says it is in talks with major manufacturers about applications for its flexible-wing technology following flight tests late last year that demonstrated the expected drag reduction.

A new wave of aircraft design is emerging–and NASA is helping. It’s probably been a long time since flying amazed you. Air travel tends to feel like an inconvenience these days–not a miracle of ...

Over the years winglets have been an aerodynamic gimmick, style statement and retrofit craze, but now the fuel-saving devices are on most commercial aircraft as they leave the factory. The same path ...