The triangle-shaped "blended-wing body" plane ditches the traditional tube-and-wing design for one giant, sweeping wing with ...

Vertical Aerospace, a global aerospace and technology company pioneering electric aviation, revealed Valo, its new commercial electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft designed to enter ...

Tom O’Leary concedes that most suppliers were sceptical when his start-up, JetZero, approached them a couple of years ago with a business plan to challenge Airbus and Boeing with a bold new commercial ...

A blended-wing body aircraft is essentially one giant wing with the cabin built inside. Two California companies are racing Airbus to market.

What was the last commercial US passenger jet to have rear-mounted engines? That question limits the answer to just commercial aircraft and not business jets. Unlike commercial aircraft, modern ...

Chinese aerospace giant Comac has unveiled its plans for the C949, a supersonic aircraft designed to fly 50% farther than the Concorde and produce sonic booms quieter than a hairdryer. Scheduled to ...

Alternative fuels, hybrid propulsion systems, and all-electric propulsion are seen as the main pathways to achieve net zero flying operations. However, there could be another way that's based almost ...

LIFT Aircraft begins FAA type certification process for a commercial version of its HEXA eVTOL, expanding into autonomous and air taxi ops.

More than 60 years after it graced the skies for the first time, Lockheed's SR-71 Blackbird remains the fastest manned plane ever developed. With the ability to hit a maximum speed of 2,193 miles per ...