What will the orbital spacecraft of tomorrow look like? If Dassault Aviation has its way, it could be similar to its Véhicule ...

Wing fences are small metal vanes that once graced the wings of early jets. Here's why they have since disappeared from ...

Aircraft wake vortex dynamics encompass the study of the vortical patterns generated by an aircraft during flight, which have significant implications for aviation safety and airport capacity ...

Today's Top Pick is a 1963 Cessna 205 Super Skywagon. Cessna's general aviation lineup was evolving quickly during the early ...

This project was inspired by several things—like large vortex cannons used to disrupt hail and a WWII German design meant to bring down aircraft using fuel-ignited vortex rings (though it was ...

A Waikato Westpac Rescue Helicopter crash was caused by a phenomenon called a ‘vortex ring state’, an investigation has found. The helicopter was trying to ...

Upon return, it would land just like a conventional aircraft. Naturally, the VORTEX is reusable by design, meaning it would be ready to go again soon after landing. The French aerospace company did ...

The investigation has found that the helicopter almost certainly entered a hazardous aerodynamic condition called vortex ring state (VRS) — marking what may be the first time a helicopter ...

Dassault Aviation and the French government signed on Friday an agreement whereby France's armed forces ministry would support the development of Dassault Aviation's VORTEX spaceplane demonstrator.The ...

A kind of helicopter design first envisioned by the Renaissance -era Italian polymath Leonardo Da Vinci could help develop quieter and stealthier modern drones, according to a new study. At such a ...