The nature-inspired metal material could enable shape-shifting wings that adjust themselves for smoother flight.

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Engineers are closing in on a long imagined goal in aviation, wings that can subtly change shape in midair instead of relying ...

MIT and NASA researchers have developed a morphing airplane wing that goes back to the future: The entire wing bends and twists, much as the Wright brothers' Flyer 1 did more than a century ago.

LYON—Airbus UpNext, the airframer’s innovation arm, has begun to heavily modify a Cessna Citation VII business jet as the demonstrator for a high-aspect ratio, morphing wing aimed to cut fuel ...