Aviation Week Network

NASA Set For Next-Gen Airliner Wing Laminar Flow Flight Tests

The upcoming test campaign at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) is the culmination of the program that included ...
Tech Xplore

NASA tests technology offering potential fuel savings for commercial aviation

NASA researchers successfully completed a high-speed taxi test of a scale model of a design that could make future aircraft more efficient by improving how air flows across a wing's surface, saving ...
The National Interest

America’s Best Cold War Jets All Had One Design Feature

But the variable-sweep wing design seems to have gone out of fashion most recently. As the name suggests, “variable-sweep” wings are aircraft wings that can be adjusted to different degrees of ...
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North American F-86A Sabre

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. America's first swept-wing jet fighter, the F-86 Sabre joined the ranks of great fighter aircraft during combat ...