French engineer René Louis Riout designed a four-wing aircraft inspired by dragonflies, hoping its flapping wings could provide a new way to fly. The French military commissioned a full-scale ...

In 2014 and 2015, at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, a strange-looking twin-boom aircraft called Proteus spent six months flying with wings that bent instead of ...

Airbus opened a new Wing Technology Development Centre (WTDC) at its Filton site last July to accelerate the design, construction, and testing of wings for the next generation of jets. Airbus says ...

Airbus created the AlbatrossONE, a small-scale remote-controlled aircraft with wingtips that can flap like a bird during turbulence to better handle the strong gusts of winds. These hinged, flapping ...

Airbus has been granted a patent for an aircraft wing design featuring a wingbox, lower trailing edge panel, flap, and flap deployment mechanism. The design includes a unique panel support arrangement ...

Bombardier has patented a coupler for aircraft wing trailing edge flaps, allowing for smooth deployment. The design includes a carriage with rollers on an elongated track, coupled to the flap via ...

Simulations of a rigid-wing ground-generation airborne wind energy system show that speed-scheduled flap deflection and a ...

About 60 Elixir aircraft remain grounded as investigators examine why a flap detached before a fatal crash at Rochefort, ...