The amount of testing required for a brand new aircraft type is tremendous, and that's a good thing. Take a look at the Boeing 787, for example. It's the first commercial aircraft built primarily from ...

The full-sized wing developed and built for AeroVironment's unmanned, high-altitude Global Observer has successfully completed wing load testing, the company says. The tests demonstrate the integrity ...

The Comac C919 programme is making progress, with the aircraft passing a key static testing milestone and flight test aircraft 102 making a cross country flight. On 12 July, top Comac executives ...

Before Censys Technologies flies a Sentaero aircraft, it performs engineering work on the ground to ensure that the platform will perform every time. Recently, John Tillo and Dr. J. Gordon Leishman ...

Aerodynamic scaling rules that explain how flight varies according to weight and wing loading have been used to compare general speeds of a wide range of flyers, from the smallest insects to the ...