The amount of testing required for a brand new aircraft type is tremendous, and that's a good thing. Take a look at the Boeing 787, for example. It's the first commercial aircraft built primarily from ...

Bombardier's Global family of airplanes provides a smoother ride than competitors due to its wing design. A key factor in this smooth ride is lower wing loading, meaning less wing area relative to ...

The full-sized wing developed and built for AeroVironment's unmanned, high-altitude Global Observer has successfully completed wing load testing, the company says. The tests demonstrate the integrity ...

The lowest airspeed (stall speed) for most fixed-wing aircraft is primarily determined by its wing loading and the wing's maximum lift coefficient. Claims of extremely low or "no" stall speeds, often ...

Measurement of flight speeds of 138 species of bird reveals that mass and wing loading do not scale according to aerodynamic theory but vary significantly depending on phylogeny. Aerodynamic scaling ...

Ideally, an aircraft would be made of something reasonably strong, light, and weather resistant. Cardboard, is none of those things. But that did not stop [PeterSripol] from building an ultralight ...