Gear tilt is common on aircraft, but a rear tilt is more common. The 767's forward tilt is a less popular choice, especially among Boeing aircraft. The reason for the 767 to have a tilt is to fit into ...

The 787 Dreamliner is already widely used throughout United's network, and it will eventually operate the vast majority of ...

Often, the gaming internet depresses me with *gestures expansively*, but sometimes, it delights me with some relatively specific and impassioned Thing like, in this case, a single-player aerobatics ...

A paper published last year in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface described a feather as a masterpiece of engineering, one comprising nine orders of magnitude, from the nanoscale to the meter ...

The Boeing 777X is a massive aircraft that has folding wings, but it can't fly with them like that. Here's why the wings fold ...

The Honey BBQ strikes a perfect balance of sweet and savory that might just ruin all other BBQ wings for you forever. For those who appreciate heat with complexity, the Boom Boom sauce delivers layers ...

A new report from the National Transportation Safety Board says years ago, Boeing flagged a potential issue with a bearing that was found fractured on the UPS plane that crashed.

By studying how grasshoppers glide and fold their wings, researchers are finding new ways to extend flight time for ...

Tiny flying robots have always faced a brutal trade-off between agility and battery life, burning through power just to stay ...

What looks like a flying egg, was never designed to land, and was so light it could be thrown off course by its own guns?

When an airplane flies, the wings are designed to provide enough lift to overcome the airplane’s weight, so the plane doesn’t drop out of the sky. The plane can move forward because its engine ...

Startup Natilus is building a "blended-wing body" aircraft that fits the cabin into one giant wing. Natilus' first announced airline customer is the Indian carrier SpiceJet. The up to 240-passenger ...