Marina Henke: With insects, wings diversify even more. That’s because when you're really tiny, the viscosity of the air ...

The vane on the leading edge — or “forward,” in the direction of a bird’s flight — is narrower and the fibers are generally ...

The Boeing YF-118G Bird of Prey was a revolutionary experimental aircraft developed in secret at Area 51 during the 1990s to ...

At the end of just about every commercial airliner’s wings is an important piece of technology that can be easy to miss. The ...

Feathers enhance bird flight in all kinds of important ways, but the complexity of a living bird wing defies easy quantification. “Their flexibility is amazing,” Ken said, staring at a dramatic ...

Adaptive variable camber compliant wing (VCCW): AFRL has developed an adaptive variable camber compliant wing (VCCW) that can re-contour the airfoil camber in-flight. These are flexible, often ...

You can know a lot of things about birds just by the shape of their wings. A seafaring albatross, stretching out its sail-like airfoils, lives a very different life from a ground-dwelling antpitta ...

Airplane plumage might be the next big thing in aviation. Bird wings are contoured with overlapping rows of feathery tufts, spreading out from near the shoulder. These “covert feathers” help ...

Bird wings and legs evolve independently, while bat wing and leg proportions are integrated. Credit: Nature Ecology & Evolution (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02572-9 ...

The Austrian and another wingsuit jumper, Andreas Podlipnik, developed six airfoil prototypes over six years, testing them at an indoor wind tunnel in Stockholm, before deciding on one that would ...

Yet, the basic arrangement of bird wings hasn’t changed in the last 100 million years. Longrich says, ‘There is something very close to a modern bird wing in the Jurassic archaeopteryx.

The joint venture company, ST Engineering AirX, signed a letter of intent (LOI) on Feb 21 at the Singapore Airshow with Eurasia Mobility Solutions in Turkey for an order of up to 10 AirFish Wing ...