Aviation Week

Europe Begins Laminar-Flow Flight Tests For Future Airline

A highly modified and instrumented Airbus A340-300 has launched into a 150-hr. flight-test campaign intended to prove whether a drag-reducing laminar-flow wing design will be practical for a future ...

NASA Tried Something Unexpected With A Fighter Jet, And It Could Make Flights Cheaper

While all eyes have been on the astounding Artemis II mission that sent humans back to the moon, NASA has been working on ...
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F-15B Eagle Flies With Funky New Fin on Its Belly for the First Time, Not a New Weapon

It’s been almost a month since American space agency NASA announced a major development in the field of laminar flow flight, and we’re already seeing the first results of the research being conducted ...
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Airbus' “BLADE” laminar flow wing demonstrator makes first flight

Airbus' A340 laminar-flow “BLADE” test demonstrator aircraft (A340-300) has made its successful maiden flight for the EU-sponsored Clean Sky “Blade” project. The aircraft, dubbed “Flight Lab”, took ...
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Aurora advances to second phase of DARPA ‘active flow’ flight-control experiment

Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences is advancing to the next stage of a US military experiment aimed at developing novel methods of aircraft flight control. The Control of Revolutionary Aircraft ...