At the very crux of engineering is the desire to problem-solve, optimize, and squeeze out every bit of efficiency possible from the system being built. Aircraft design and aeronautical engineering ...

Sharrow's extraordinary looped propellers were already some 30% more efficient than traditional designs – and now the company has put two of them together into a coaxial, contra-rotating prop that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writing about vertical flight aircraft & advanced aviation technology. The EHang 184 electric VTOL aircraft has two ...

WHEN A MODIFIED MD-80 airliner flew at the 1988 Farnborough air show in Britain, it was supposed to represent the future of air travel. One of its rear-mounted jet engines had been replaced with an ...

The U.S. Army Air Forces commissioned the Fisher P-75 Eagle, an unconventional fighter designed by an auto manufacturer, instead of modifying existing aircraft. The P-75 featured a complex and ...

The Hughes XF-11 was a massive, twin-boom, long-range photo-reconnaissance aircraft, visually similar to a P-38 Lightning but significantly larger and heavier, designed to operate at high altitudes.

The Russian Tu-95 'Bear' isn't just a relic of the Cold War, with the potential for a nuclear payload capable of untold devastation. It's eight contra-rotating propellers also enable to it hold the ...