Oleg Antonov transformed Soviet aviation by creating the Antonov design bureau and iconic aircraft such as the An-2, An-12, ...

New DHC-6 300-G arrivals promise improved range and payload while preserving the Twin Otter’s rugged seaplane versatility.

Realistic conceptual design loads in the early phase of the overall aircraft design for the mass estimation of fuselage and wing play an important role in the overall aircraft assessment for new ...

Hybrid-electric flight demonstrations at Farnborough International Airshow 2026 showed how quickly aircraft electrification is moving from research into real-world development. Increasingly, the ...

The concept of blended-wing aircraft – where fuselage and wing are all one structure – is not new. But this radical design might soon be a credible concept for airliners. In March 2025, a small ...

The basic design of commercial airplanes hasn’t changed much in the past 60 years. Modern airliners like the Boeing 787 and the Airbus A350 have the same general shape as the Boeing 707 and the ...

Every aspect of next generation aircraft design can be accomplished today in the cloud, with engineers across hundreds of aerospace industry suppliers now using a common new set of all-digital tools ...

Boeing will study the certification challenges of its Transonic Truss-Braced Wing (TTBW) ultra-efficient airliner concept as part of a new phase of work following wind tunnel tests that prove the ...

volume 1, Aircraft design: Introduction -- Review of practical aerodynamics -- Aircraft performance methods -- Aircraft operating envelope -- Preliminary estimate of takeoff weight -- Estimating the ...

The dream of personal flight has always felt just out of reach, until now. A company called AltoVolo has unveiled something that might make it real: the world's first eVTOL configurator. That might ...