US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is on track to receive the first example of a new close-air support turboprop in the coming weeks. The OA-1K, a militarised crop duster manufactured by Air ...

Military systems integrator L3Harris is closing in on its first export sale for the company’s Sky Warden armed turboprop platform. L3Harris tells FlightGlobal it is in serious discussions with three ...

Sikorsky and Lockheed Martin’s decision to build a hybrid tilt-wing technology demonstrator is a significant step forward for eVTOL aircraft. We are in a unique position to say this, as Dufour ...

For the most part, fixed-wing aircraft have the same configuration, but there's a type of plane that incorporates something different: Canards. A canard is a wing that is fixed before the main wings, ...

But the variable-sweep wing design seems to have gone out of fashion most recently. As the name suggests, “variable-sweep” wings are aircraft wings that can be adjusted to different degrees of ...