From his youth, Jack Northrop imagined efficient all-wing aircraft so advanced that technology and power plants needed to ...

One of America’s leading aircraft designers, Jack Northrop, showed keen interest in the Horten brothers’ flying-wing glider back in the 1930s and built flying-wing airplanes of his own in the ...

High aspect ratio reduces induced drag for fuel-efficient, long-distance flying ... narrow wings, usually denotes gliders or other high-performance aircraft. Conversely, a low aspect ratio ...

a low-aspect-ratio aircraft, is sometimes described as a flying lawn chair. The Cosmos Phase II, also known as a trike, is essentially a cockpit and motor slung beneath a hang glider wing.

Someone mentioning a 'Flying Dorito,' is likely talking about the A-12 jet. But how did the aircraft earn the name and what ...

When you think of unconventional aircraft, flying wings have had plenty of time in the sun over the last few decades. With striking designs like the B-2 Spirit and F-117A Nighthawk on the flight ...

New images have emerged of one of China’s futuristic fighter jets, a three-engine, tailless flying wing aircraft that Western analysts have dubbed the J-36. It’s unclear when the images ...

The rudder in that altered glider and in the 1903 Flyer was controlled by the hip cradle. The combined movement of the twisting wings and of the movable rudder allowed the aircraft to bank and turn.