Winglets also add time and money to the designing phase and construction ... on a commercial aircraft, which allows the newer Boeing 777X to have larger, more fuel-efficient wings in the air ...

The revolutionary Z4 all-wing airplane will be manufactured at a state-of-the-art facility in Greensboro, North Carolina, ...

Real airplanes would have fuselages and engine ... a solution that simplified wing construction but might have cost a smidgen of speed or climb rate. The inverted gull wing of the Vought F4U ...

North Carolina has apparently been chosen as the location for a blended-wing-body aircraft manufacturing site, and though the ...

No other piloted plane has ever been built with a wing that could turn to a lopsided ... improved with more sophisticated materials and construction. What mattered most, however, was proving ...

When the Navy laid the ship down and began its construction ... of the class are also known as Nimitz-class aircraft carriers. The Nimitz’s Air Wing Is Where The Magic Happens But what makes ...

She said the plane's wing construction likely contained firewalls — sections of material that are less easily combustible — that will have slowed the blaze's progress. The aircraft will also ...

The fixed-wing aircraft shares the same airframe ... The company said Tuesday it is in the final stages of construction on the plant, and is on track to begin manufacturing aircraft this summer.