The Marines also operate around 138 older F/A-18A/C/D Hornets (the Navy has largely replaced its Hornets with Super Hornets).

The Common Support Aircraft (CSA) was a proposed concept, which has been considered by the United States Navy since at least the early 1990s, to replace a number of different fixed-wing aircraft ...

The future aircraft intended to be common to all branches of the United States Armed Forces will not materialize. The U.S.

such as an aircraft wing or the bottom of a yacht, is ensured by embedded fiber optic sensors. A change in the sensor's signal indicates cracking or delamination—the most common failures in ...

The future aircraft common to all United States Armed Forces branches will not come to fruition. The U.S. Navy has developed ...

If you visit any airport, you'll notice that all the airliners have one thing in common ... the blending of wing and body moves some of the job of lifting the aircraft from the wings to the ...

The form factor the startup is chasing is known as a blended wing body aircraft. Today, the company announced partnerships with several established aviation tech suppliers for a demonstrator ...

and in most common cases, passenger aircraft will carry cargo in the hold. Typically, cargo aircraft do not have passenger seats. Instead, there is an empty area behind the cockpit, to the rear of the ...

Two aircraft operated by American Airlines and Frontier Airlines clipped wings while on the tarmac at Boston Logan International Airport (BOS). The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reported that ...

As an experimental Su-27 variant, the Su-27LL-PS tested advanced 2D thrust vectoring for enhanced maneuverability, providing ...

Northwestern researchers have developed a novel anti-frost surface that prevents accumulation on airplane wings for a week or more.