Cobalt Aircraft Industries has announced it will introduce its Co50 at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh on July 28. The five-seat all-composite Canard will be powered by a mid-ship-mounted Continental TSIOF-550 ...

Where the original Eve eVTOL design ran a two-wing canard setup, with eight vertical lift props to complement two pusher props on the back, it seems the company has decided to go with something a bit ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Burt Rutan invigorated the homebuilt aircraft movement when he began selling the plans to build his VariEze ('very ...

The MMVs feature a canard layout, with the main wing at the back and the tailplane at the front. This design keeps the center of weight low and to the rear, reducing the potential for overturning ...

Occasional Machine Design contributor James Finkel has an observation about today's xkcd.com comic which portrays a bumblebee piloting an airliner, as a takeoff on the old canard that aerodynamically, ...

Business aviation is a spawning ground for innovation. By comparison, the history of commercial aviation in the past half-century has been downright boring insofar as unconventional airframe designs ...

It's really not debatable: aircraft builder Cobalt's Valkyrie is freakin' gorgeous, and supposedly the appeal inside the cockpit will match the plane's outer appearance. Beyond its looks, Cobalt ...

Where my ability to identify commercial planes is strong, my skill in terms of private planes is quite the opposite. I've always thought of business planes as cool, but few really stood out from the ...

Count de Lambert, the first student of Wilbur Wright, attempted the English Channel crossing with a Wright Flyer but failed due to the aircraft's instability and a resulting accident. Louis Blériot ...