Why the story of the Boeing 777X's delays and its novel folding wingtips is complicated by a range of converging factors.

When Boeing first unveiled the 777X's wings, the manufacturer certainly raised the eyebrows of avgeeks, carrier executives, and pilots alike. Breaking from traditional fixed wings, the 777X's wingtips ...

For decades, the overall shape of a passenger aircraft has remained largely the same, with a central fuselage flanked by a pair of wings that hold the fuel tanks and, most of the time, the engines. It ...

Over the past ten years or so, American space agency NASA has become a major player in the aviation industry, getting itself involved in all sorts of projects meant to inform the design of the ...

Boeing completed the ultimate load test on the static test 787 airframe, ZY997, at Everett on March 28. The test — officially dubbed Condition 18b — evaluated the ability of the wing-body structure to ...