The world’s largest plane will transport wind turbines blades and fighter jets

A little-known company based in Boulder, Colorado, is pursuing an ambitious, borderline outlandish goal: creating the world’s ...
Aviation Week Network

Project Lotus, Northrop Grumman’s Secret Autonomous Aircraft Revealed

The Lotus UAS design in some ways resembles features of the newly revealed Lockheed Martin Project Vectis, with a long, slender fuselage positioned forward of the leading edges of the wings, capped by ...
The New York Times

Now Arriving: A New Theory of In-Flight Turbulence

Physicists have devised a new model to account for the discomfort that airline passengers know all too well. By Alexander Nazaryan Bjorn Birnir dreads an airplane seatmate asking what he does for a ...
insider.si.edu

Aircraft performance and design / John D. Anderson, Jr

The evolution of the airplane and its performance : a short history -- Aerodynamics of the airplane : the drag polar -- Some propulsion characteristics -- The equations of motion -- Airplane ...