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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Flying-V, an experimental aircraft that promises significantly greater fuel efficiency over more conventional commercial jet ...

Researchers have conducted a successful maiden flight of the Flying-V, a futuristic and fuel efficient airplane that could one day carry passengers in its wings. The Flying-V’s unique design places ...

Praise be Loudwire writer Chad Childers for this gorgeously executed opening line: “‘The Flying V’ certainly helped the guitar industry take off in a new direction, but can the ‘Flying V’ actually fly ...

The development of a V-shaped, fuel-efficient airplane design known as the Flying-V is getting a boost with the announcement that Dutch national carrier KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will help to fund it.

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 ...

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 ...