After a series of weather-related delays, NASA launched the test flight of its revolutionary 'flying ... Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (SIAD) successfully inflated around the saucer for ...

This simple principle is a central tenet of hydrology and aerodynamics. Avro engineers found that routing exhaust over the lower hemisphere of a saucer forms ... planes are flying at low speeds.

NASA’s “flying saucer” took to the skies without trouble ... The supersonic inflatable aerodynamic decelerator – a balloonlike vessel – inflated around the craft, creating drag and ...

The flying saucer carries two technologies that are ... and the the Supersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (SIAD) - a doughnut-shaped air brake that helped reduce the vehicle's speed ...

Russia was a bit later to the flying saucer trend. Its most notable attempt ... However, they have serious aerodynamic problems that makes them inefficient and unstable. Circular wings have ...

The concept was to develop an actual flying saucer, akin to the UFOs of popular culture. This design had no precedent of any ...

The U.S. Air Force, which has batted down many a flying-saucer report ... Frost finally found what he thinks is a solution in an aerodynamic principle known as “the Coanda effect.” ...