Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aurora Flight Sciences is developing a fan-in-wing blended wing body aircraft concept as part of a U.S. military program exploring ...

Lockheed Martin redesigned the lift-fan inlet on the F-35B with an aft-hinged door after problems with the bifold doors on the X-35 concept demonstrator... Lockheed Martin redesigned the lift-fan ...

We are taught from a very young age that aircraft generally hide fuel tanks inside their wings. That remains true, for the most part, but now that a new breed of aircraft called vertical take-off and ...

"It was definitely a paradigm shift," says Design News 2004 Engineer of the Year Paul Bevilaqua, recalling when DARPA awarded contracts to develop a common, affordable, strike fighter to Lockheed ...

Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences is working on a high-speed VTOL military aircraft as part of DARPA's Speed & Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) program. Early ground effect testing has ...

Canadian start-up Horizon Aircraft has tweaked the design of its Cavorite X7 vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) platform to boost performance, modifying the arrangement of the electric ducted fans ...

General Electric and Rolls-Royce have kicked off short takeoff and vertical landing (Stovl) testing of a prototype F136 engine, with the lift fan engaged, for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike ...

From the 1950s to 1970s, the US Army tested several short- or vertical-takeoff and landing (S/VTOL) aircraft to improve its surveillance capabilities. Several concepts were tested, including ...