A V-shaped airliner that seats passengers in the wings instead of a central fuselage could make long-distance air travel more sustainable — and it’s more than pie in the sky. The Dutch airline KLM ...

Airlines are testing all sorts of ways to make planes less of a drag on the environment. Virgin Atlantic recently used recycled waste to power a commercial flight, while Boeing and JetBlue have backed ...

Last year we caught wind of an interesting aviation concept cooked up by engineers at TU Delft, which consisted of a novel V-shaped design that promises significant efficiency gains over conventional ...

How would you feel about flying in an airplane’s wing, the place where we all know fuel is usually stored? Because that’s exactly what you’ll do in the not so distant future if Dutch airline KLM has ...

"The Flying V" certainly helped the guitar industry take off in a new direction, but can the "Flying V" actually fly? Dutch airline KLM has teamed up with researchers at Delft University of Technology ...

Air travelers might soon be flying on a V-shaped passenger jet. The ambitious Flying-V project recently received a big boost with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines announcing it will help fund the ...

After a tough year in aviation—the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX after two fatal crashes, the crashing of airline computer systems across the U.S., the announcement of the end of the superjumbo ...

On Monday, news started to spread about a radical new design of passenger plane. Shaped like the letter V, (and called the Flying-V), it does away with a conventional fuselage and even the middle bit ...