A throwback to early 20th Century aviation may hold the key to eliminating the sonic boom - at least according to researchers at MIT and Stanford University. Strongly reminiscent of biplanes still in ...

The supersonic aircraft of the future could look quite different from that of designs past, if the recent findings of one MIT researcher and his colleagues hold true. Assistant professor of ...

When the Concorde, pictured, was retired in 2003, it meant the end of supersonic commercial flight. A new biplane design, however, could make supersonic flights a reality again, according to an ...

Biplanes once ruled the skies in the pioneering days of aviation and World War I. Now the old aircraft design could make a comeback in the silent supersonic jets of tomorrow. A newer version of the ...

Qiqi Wang (MIT), Rui Hu (MIT) and Antony Jameson (Stanford) have shown through a computer model that a modified biplane can, in fact, produce significantly less drag than a conventional single-wing ...

A video for the 80th anniversary of the Skunk Works shows, through renderings and sketches, the past, the present and the future of the secretive division of Lockheed Martin. To celebrate 80 years of ...

SkyDrive Inc. ("SkyDrive"), a leading compact eVTOL aircraft (*1) developer based in Japan, today published its Aircraft Design Concept paper, which is titled "The eVTOL Safety Dilemma in Congested ...