Boeing has taken the wraps off of a new ultra-thin wing concept designed to improve the performance of transonic aircraft traveling at speeds of Mach 0.8 (593 mph, 955 km/h). The latest version of the ...

Nothing did more to accelerate the development of aviation in the 20th century than World War II. By the time the conflict was over in 1945, the fighters that first tangled five years previously were ...

Thinking about watching 'Transonic Flight' on any device? Tracking down where to stream, rent, buy, or watch how to watch this Denis Segaller directed movie can be harder than it should be so we at ...

NASA's Sustainable Flight Demonstrator full-scale single-aisle research plane designed to explore net-zero aviation emissions and faster, more economical passenger flight near the speed of sound has ...

NASA has begun planning for a flight demonstration of the Transonic Truss Braced Wing ultra-efficient airliner configuration. The experimental aircraft would be one of a suite of demonstration ...

Supersonic airliners are poised for a comeback. But while we await the arrival of a new generation of commercial jets that break the sound barrier, Boeing is working on another way to speed up air ...

Artist concept of commercial aircraft families with a Transonic Truss-Braced Wing (TTBW) configuration from the Sustainable Flight Demonstrator (SFD) project. Photo Credit: Boeing The National ...