The head of Airbus has started talking about a future airliner that looks less like a traditional tube with wings and more ...

The triangle-shaped "blended-wing body" plane ditches the traditional tube-and-wing design for one giant, sweeping wing with ...

For ages, it seems, we have grown accustomed to airplanes looking a certain way: there's a central fuselage that hides room for people and cargo, wings to either side of that, and engines generally ...

Engineers in the United States are betting that ultra-long, ultra-thin wings can make jet travel quieter, smoother and ...