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 ...

Electra, the global leader in hybrid-electric aviation, today unveiled a new conceptual aircraft design for next-generation ...

The Nevada desert’s most infamous military installation has harbored countless secrets for over seven decades. From the U-2 ...

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 A newer version of the ...

Deep in Nevada’s Mojave Desert, where classified projects have taken to the skies for over seven decades, a mysterious ...

Aviation is entering a strange but exciting phase. For decades, most passenger aircraft have ...

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 ...

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 ...