Folding wings are not something that is often associated with commercial aviation, but the 777X breaks this norm. How do these systems work?

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 ...

Engineers are closing in on a long imagined goal in aviation, wings that can subtly change shape in midair instead of relying on rigid flaps and heavy hydraulics. The key is a family of “metals with ...

Russian researchers have raised the possibility that an Antonov An-124 successor could be designed with folding wing-tips to improve aerodynamic efficiency. The aircraft – dubbed ‘Slon’, meaning ...

Boeing announced its next-generation 777X passenger jet at the Dubai Airshow in 2013. The plane is a stretched version of Boeing's successful 777-200/300, but with reduced emissions and operating ...

Airbus is stepping up the development of ground-breaking wing technology as it prepares for a potential replacement for its enormously successful A320 series. However, the esteemed aircraft ...

A U.S. Navy research center has received the first of three transverse folding-wing uncrewed air systems (UAS) supplied by Pterodynamics to start the next phase of a months-long prototyping ...

Airbus is preparing to conduct a destructive test of an experimental wing as part of a technologies initiative, as it opens a new facility at its UK site in Filton dedicated to future wing research.

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company’s Advanced Development Programs sector is proposing a morphing wing design that can be locked into either an expanded or contracted position. Key to enabling this ...