Cirrus Aircraft recently launched a tool that lets anyone design a Vision Jet or an SR Series plane. It’s called the Configurator, and it can be accessed for free on their website. “What’s really ...

A video for the 80th anniversary of the Skunk Works shows, through renderings and sketches, the past, the present and the future of the secretive division of Lockheed Martin. To celebrate 80 years of ...

His life is such a mystery that even his real name is uncertain, but his legacy to the world of aviation is clear: Robert Oros di Bartini – as the inscription reads on his tombstone – was a genius ...

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In the early 2000s, Boeing explored building a record-breaking military transport plane. Here's what made it unique, and why ...

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) says it's time for some airplanes to drop elevators, flaps and rudders for flight control. DARPA's new X-plane concept will remove these ...