There’s no airplane quite like the Grumman X-29. Its astonishing forward-swept wings were just one of its many bold innovations. Created at the height of the Cold War by a conglomerate of giants – ...

For the past six years, Lexus has teamed up with pilot-extraordinaire Yoshihide Muroya, winner of the 2017 Red Bull Air Race World Championships—an event that also welcomed Muroya as its first Asian ...

WHEN an aircraft moves forward through the air, its wings deflect the air downwards. It is the reaction to this force on the air that lifts the plane up. The shape of the cross-section of the wing is ...

Inverted wings are subject to an extreme twisting force that can break them, so they need to be reinforced. But the X-29’s wings would have weighed 3,500 pounds if they were made of metal.