Some of the most impressive aircraft ever built were also among the most difficult to keep flying. Revolutionary designs ...

But the variable-sweep wing design seems to have gone out of fashion most recently. As the name suggests, “variable-sweep” wings are aircraft wings that can be adjusted to different degrees of ...

The fictional fighter jet in the film Stealth was partly inspired by real classified research into adaptive wing aircraft. Northrop’s Switchblade concept featured forward sweeping variable geometry ...

Today, aircraft wings are increasingly designed to prioritize stealth characteristics over raw speed—giving them a smooth, unbroken connection to the aircraft’s main fuselage. The wing of a fighter ...

Around 45 B-1B bombers remain in service, giving the USAF 45% of its peak strength, while another 27 are in varying condition in storage.

The B-2 was a generational leap in strategic stealth bombing capabilities and is not be superseded until 2027 when the B-21 ...