Airbus is developing a folding wing for better fuel efficiency on next-generation aircraft. SCREENGRAB FROM AIRBUS VIDEO BY MICHELE LOGARTA IN the second half of the 2030s, travelers could be flying ...

Open fan’ technology part of plans to make new models 20-30% more fuel efficient than aircraft currently in the air ...

The Airbus A319 and A320 have very small upper ... winglets with a curving transition from wing to winglet that is characteristic of the company's design. In 1976, shortly after an energy crisis ...

Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance and Cebu Pacific Air announce the strengthening of their partnership for ...

said it was vital to test the open fan design because it had “more promising fuel consumption characteristics” than ducted fans. The engines could be mounted either on the aircraft wing or at ...