The B2 Spirit looks nothing like a conventional aircraft. Rather than wings attached to a fuselage, the B2 is a single flying wing. While most people associate it with stealth, the flying wing design ...

In the 1940s, the flying wing seemed destined to transform aviation with its sleek design and efficiency. But despite promising early tests, Jack Northrop’s prototypes faced engineering challenges and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The B-21 bomber pairs cutting edge tech with a throwback aircraft design. It is based on a visionary aircraft design that dates ...

Research and data obtained during the testing of these and other experimental aircraft would lead to today’s B-2 Spirit bomber and beyond. American concerns that Great Britain might fall to Axis ...

Early aviation engineers appreciated the potential for a “flying wing” design. A flying wing, which minimizes fuselage and usually eliminates the tail, reduces many of the aerodynamic compromises ...

The aircraft is similar to another concept model revealed during the 2018 Singapore Air Show, called the Star Shadow, which was developed with an unspecified Chinese institution. A new flying wing ...

The US Air Force (USAF) has released new footage of its next-generation stealth bomber in flight. Northrop Grumman is developing the nuclear-capable B-21 Raider flying wing, which began flight testing ...

CHINA has unveiled plans for a gargantuan 800-passenger capacity jet with a record-breaking 230ft wingspan in a bid to rival Boeing. The ambitious aircraft would abandon the standard tube-and-wing ...

If you're not in the aviation industry, you might struggle to tell an Airbus model from another, or even an Airbus from a Boeing. Despite the fantastic technology in commercial aircraft, which would ...