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New metal could morph aircraft wings while flying

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

China’s New UCAVs Come into Full View at Parade

Parade reveals China’s latest UCAV designs, ranging from ISR and strike drones to large stealthy platforms hinting at future PLAAF roles. A few weeks after we reported about a new possible Chinese ...
Flying

Luminary Cloud Unveils Transonic Wing Design Tool

Luminary Cloud has launched Shift-Wing, an AI-powered model and dataset designed to accelerate the conceptual design of advanced aircraft wings, from subsonic all the way up to transonic speeds. The ...
Flightglobal

Airbus remains open to blended-wing design for larger aircraft, confirms tube-and-wing structure for next narrowbody

While Airbus expects its next narrowbody jet will have a traditional tube-and-wing configuration, it has not abandoned the idea of an eventual blended-wing-body (BWB) design for a larger jet. That is ...
Forbes

Teen Reinvents NASA’s Shelved Wing Design, Wins $70K Prize

An 18-year-old from Olympia, Washington, has just taken a significant step toward transforming the way we think about aviation. Kevin Shen’s new take on oblique-wing design not only achieves a higher ...
The Aviationist

China’s CH-7 Flying Wing Drone Conducts First Flight

Official descriptions suggest the CH-7 has an ISTAR role, which would allow it to send back data on enemy vessels in the western Pacific and guide long-range maritime strike missiles. China’s CH-7 ...