If you've ever seen a military jet fighter in person, you may have noticed that the wings have a distinctive shape to them, angling downward from the fuselage to their tips. These are known as swept ...

The experimental Su-47 Russian demonstrator fighter jet was somewhat of a short-lived demonstrator, yet numerous public accounts suggest that its innovations propelled development of the country's two ...

Credit: NASA/Christopher LC Clark NASA is poised to begin flight tests of a representative stub wing section that is aimed at dramatically enhancing the drag-reducing benefits of natural laminar flow ...

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 ...