The variable sweep wing was a groundbreaking approach that allowed aircraft to adapt their shape to different phases of flight. This video explains why engineers selected this complex system, how it ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The X-5 was likely the world’s first airplane that incorporated variable-sweep wing technology. The X-5 was likely the world’s first airplane that incorporated ...

Can Northrop build an oblique flying wing X-plane and revolutionise the design of long-range strike aircraft? DARPA has given it a chance to find out An aircraft that can loiter like a Global Hawk, ...

Not many aircraft can claim to be truly one of a kind, but the NASA AD-1 is undoubtedly one of them. A slim pointed cigar with a single wing that pivoted around a central point, which led to a jarring ...

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has released a video animation of the planned Oblique Flying Wing X-plane demonstrator now being designed by Northrop Grumman. The animation shows the ...