If you ever sit in an airplane row overlooking a wing, then you probably notice multiple flaps along its edges that adjust ...

Two companies want to puncture the Airbus-Boeing duopoly with a new jet type, but Airubs hopes to stay one step ahead with ...

Rows of flaps inspired by bird wing feathers improve airfoil performance by boosting lift, reducing drag and mitigating stall.

The technology echoes bird biology, specifically covert wing feathers that birds use when landing or facing turbulent winds.

When Harris argued that her Republican rival was no champion of the working class ... Harris threw her campaign together as ...

Engineers found a way to help airplanes avoid stall with lightweight plastic flaps that flutter with pressure changes. The flaps mimick a class of feathers that are key to birds' most daring aerial ...

No one wants to take off knowing their airplane is being held together by just tape. But that's exactly what a TikToker mistakenly feared when they witnessed and filmed a Spirit Airlines worker ...

All four forces have to be present for a plane to get into the air, but lift is what keeps it there. Lift is generated by the wings and they have changed a lot in the last 100 years. Let's see how ...

If that’s not a fun way to operate a big airplane, we don’t know what is.

The answer is yes, you can, but note that the question was not: can a cement plane fly? The answer to that is no, it can’t ... The first step was to suspend the PLA model in a flowerpot with ...

Othman, Girguis Sedky, Hannah Wiswell and Aimy Wissa (left to right) equipped the wings of an RC plane with covert-inspired ... how these feathers deploy, but no studies have quantified the ...