AN INCREDIBLE plane with just one huge circular wing has fascinated plane enthusiasts for years. The Lockheed Ring Wing was designed to use up less fuel, have smoother landings and be able to land on ...

The 1980s marked an era of unconventional thinking in aviation design, giving birth to groundbreaking concepts that aimed to revolutionize commercial air travel. Among these was an aircraft with a ...

The MiG I-2000, often mistaken for a lost Soviet stealth project, originated from Tajik engineer Farukh Mohammadov’s “Integral” circular-wing concept in the 1980s. Combining a disc-like wing with ...

Since the earliest days of aviation, visionaries dared to challenge norms with circular wings that enclosed the fuselage in a continuous loop‑structure known as ring wings. Early experiments in France ...