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6 cars that feature gull-wing DeLorean doors

Back to the Future and its DeLorean made the gull-wing doors famous to the masses. However, a number of other vehicles have utilized this car door feature. Here are six classic and modern cars that ...
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B2 Bomber: How Flying Wing Design Revolutionized Stealth and Range

The B2 Spirit looks nothing like a conventional aircraft. Rather than wings attached to a fuselage, the B2 is a single flying wing. While most people associate it with stealth, the flying wing design ...
Forbes

Teen Reinvents NASA’s Shelved Wing Design, Wins $70K Prize

An 18-year-old from Olympia, Washington, has just taken a significant step toward transforming the way we think about aviation. Kevin Shen’s new take on oblique-wing design not only achieves a higher ...
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Freezing the problem of futuristic planes: How scientists are beating ice on aircraft wings

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – You may one day board a plane where the wings will look very different. Future airplanes are ditching traditional wing design for something sleeker—long, thin wings braced with ...
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Boeing Takes a Half-Plane Into NASA Wind Tunnel to Test Longer and Thinner Wing Design

American space agency NASA and aircraft maker Boeing have been researching longer and thinner wing designs, they are now ...
Flightglobal

Aurora completes wind-tunnel testing on experimental fan-in-wing design

Aurora Flight Sciences has finished windtunnel testing an experimental fan-in-wing design for a Pentagon X-plane competition. The Boeing subsidiary says it recently wrapped up stability and control ...
The National Interest

Just What Is a “Flying Wing,” Exactly?

The flying wing design is niche and rare today, but the concept has been the focus of study for 100 years. The flying wing design is intuitive but relatively rare. As the name implies, a flying wing ...