Composite materials that could form the skin of a morphing aircraft have been tested for their suitability for a shape-changing winglet that would deliver improved aircraft performance. Researchers at ...

“These actively controlled wingtips have the potential to further reduce civil aircraft fuel consumption by about 2.5 percent compared with conventional winglets,” says Walter Stephan, Chairman of ...

NextGen Aeronautics is to build a small unmanned air vehicle able to change shape in flight under the next phase of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) morphing aircraft ...

Two innovative businesses - one in advanced winglet technology and the other in shape-adaptive structures – are forming a joint venture to commercialise wing morphing. Speaking at the NBAA show today ...

AIRLINE passengers gazing out of their cabin windows could soon be met with an unfamiliar sight – their aircraft’s wing tips changing shape mid-flight. That is because aircraft makers Boeing and ...

Airbus and Boeing are working on developing winglets – those small drag-reducing attachments at the tip of a plane's wing – that will move while an aircraft is in flight. That's a change from today's ...

ORLANDO, Florida—Winglet specialist Aviation Partners and joint venture partner FlexSys are working with an undisclosed customer to retrofit an aircraft with the first commercial morphing wing. The ...

The Airbus C295 Flight Test Bed 2 (FTB2) has successfully performed its maiden flight from the Final Assembly Line in Seville. The aircraft now starts a flight campaign with the aim of testing the new ...

Why does the Boeing 737 MAX wear such distinctive, split-tip winglets compared to earlier generations of the aircraft? At first glance, these sculpted tips are both futuristic and unusual, but the ...