The 1954 de Havilland Comet disasters revealed how square window corners caused fatal metal fatigue, permanently transforming pressurized aircraft design worldwide.
TaildraggerSaab's Gripen F two-seat fighter completed its maiden flight in Linköping, a milestone that closes out Brazil's decade-long fighter acquisition and offers lessons in efficient aircraft design.
TowerJetZero's Z-4 blended wing body promises up to 50% less fuel burn, with a full-scale demonstrator targeted for 2027 and passengers in the mid-2030s.
VectorRadio Hangar explores JetZero, the Blended Wing Body, and the Bet That the Tube-and-Wing Airliner Has Finally Run Out of Room.
VectorJetZero's Z4 blended wing body promises up to 50% less fuel burn by making the whole airframe a wing - here's why it might finally work.
VectorRadio Hangar explores JetZero, the Z-4 Blended Wing Body, and the Tube-and-Wing Airplane the Air Force Is Betting Fifty Years Late.
VectorNASA and Boeing's X-66 revives the strut-braced wing to cut narrow-body airliner fuel burn by up to 30 percent.
VectorJetZero's blended wing body promises up to 50% less fuel burn, but certification - not aerodynamics - is the real hurdle before it carries passengers.
VectorJetZero's Z-4 blended-wing-body demonstrator promises up to 30-50% fuel savings - here's the engineering, the funding, and the real timeline.
VectorJetZero's blended wing body aims to cut airliner fuel burn by up to 50% using shape alone - here's how it works and when it might fly.
VectorThe F4U Corsair's inverted gull wing wasn't styling - it solved the ground-clearance problem created by its massive engine and propeller.
TowerJetZero's blended wing body promises half the fuel burn, but pressurization and 90-second evacuation are the real obstacles to a flying airliner.
VectorJetZero's blended wing body aims to cut airliner fuel burn up to 50% - here's whether the claim and timeline hold up.
VectorNASA is building the Flight Dynamics Research Facility at Langley, its first new flight-dynamics wind tunnel in 40 years.
TowerOtto Aviation's Celera 500L bets an entire fuselage can hold laminar flow - here's why the physics is real but the certification road is brutal.
VectorRadio Hangar explores JetZero, the Blended Wing Body, and the Fifty-Percent Fuel Cut That Wants to Erase the Line Between the Wing and the Fuselage.
VectorThe de Havilland Comet launched the jet age on July 27, 1949, then its square windows revealed the deadly lesson of metal fatigue.
TaildraggerJetZero's full-scale blended wing body demonstrator aims to fly by 2027 and cut airliner fuel burn by up to 50 percent.
VectorJetZero's blended wing body aims to cut airliner fuel burn by up to 50%, backed by a $235M Air Force contract - here's the promise and the hurdles.
VectorThe Boeing 747SP sacrificed fuselage length to achieve ultra-long-range nonstop flights no other airliner could match in the 1970s.
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