When Boeing Co. beat out Lockheed Aircraft Corp. for the prize of building the U.S. supersonic jet transport, it was on the basis of a venturesome swing-wing concept that many aeronautical designers ...

Key Points and Summary - The F-111 Aardvark grew from the 1960s TFX drive to field a fast, long-range strike jet. -General Dynamics’ swing-wing design, twin TF30 turbofans and the first production ...

Key Points and Summary - Born for Cold War fleet defense, the F-14 Tomcat paired swing-wing agility with the AWG-9 radar and AIM-54 Phoenix to hunt bombers at range and still dogfight up close. -A ...

Today, aircraft wings are increasingly designed to prioritize stealth characteristics over raw speed—giving them a smooth, unbroken connection to the aircraft’s main fuselage. The wing of a fighter ...

Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences has revealed new details about its prototype fan-in-wing aircraft and released an animation of the craft’s vertical lift rotors. The still-unnamed design is ...

The B-21 bomber pairs cutting edge tech with a throwback aircraft design. It is based on a visionary aircraft design that dates back to World War II. That aircraft, the YB-49, minimized drag but ...