A new video shows the Scaled Composites Model 437 Vanguard during its recent first flight. On August 29, 2024, Scaled Composites’ new Model 437 aircraft, named Vanguard and registered as N437VN, ...

Researchers at Purdue University have created a turbulence model for vortex collisions that could allow aircraft engineers and designers to build aircraft more capable of handling extreme scenarios.

Developed as an unmanned loyal wingman, the Model 437 performed the first flight with a cockpit and Scaled Composites’ Brian Maisler at the commands. The new Model 437 aircraft by Scaled Composites, ...

Waco Model W Aristocraft was an unconventional postwar light aircraft with innovative design, but despite strong orders, it ...

A Kansas State University engineering design team is again one of the nation's best. The SAE Aero Design Team's model aircraft, the Purple Albatross, placed second overall in the regular class event ...

UK startup PhysicsX, founded by former Formula 1 engineering whizz Robin “Dr. Rob” Tuluie, has unveiled an AI tool that could fast-track the time it takes to design a new aircraft from months to just ...

Launching things with electromagnetism is pretty fun, with linear induction motors being a popular design that finds use from everywhere in hobby designs like [Tom Stanton]’s to the electromagnetic ...

We’ve often heard the expression “that won’t fly,” but an MIT-based experimental model literally contradicts that statement for one type of flight propulsion. Like a science-fiction story come true, ...

Last year we caught wind of an interesting aviation concept cooked up by engineers at TU Delft, which consisted of a novel V-shaped design that promises significant efficiency gains over conventional ...

We just landed Our plane crashed. *** packed Delta Airplane crash landed at Toronto's Pearson Airport Monday afternoon, ending without wings, *** tail upside down and on fire. It is extraordinary that ...