Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Boeing's new flagship 777X aircraft is the first commercial plane with folding wingtips. Airport gate space concerns ignited the ...

The long-awaited Boeing 777X is being developed with new, more efficient folding wingtips, which are set to reduce its overall wingspan at the airports it serves. These folding wingtips enable the ...

It's been a complicated road for Boeing's 777x. The next generation of the world's most popular widebody has had a plethora of hurdles in recent years, moving the jet more than five years behind ...

Watch This Plane’s Wings Shapeshift, Thanks To NASA Tech The agency just performed a test that uses shape memory alloy to fold a drone's wings in flight.

This scetch shows possible technology choices for Airbus' next-genration single aisle aircraft, including an open fan engine. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Airbus Airbus has a grand vision for a ...

Michael Habib has worked on a prototype folding wing system based on pterosaur flight through a Nasa-funded university project. David Hone and Liz Martin-Silverstone do not work for, consult, own ...