Aircraft manufacturers are racing to build the jet of the future as airlines demand more efficient planes. Among the most likely concepts is a blended-wing-body aircraft, which combines the ...
Inspired by bird flight, engineers have recently enhanced remote-controlled aircraft performance by adding rows of covert-inspired flaps to airplane wings. These flaps, modeled after the covert ...
Minter Field Air Museum is welcoming the community to help keep Kern’s aviation history alive with the ‘Wings N Wheels’ fundraiser this weekend. The event is the air museum’s biggest ...
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Kern County has been home to many first and historic flights. Minter Field Air Museum is welcoming the community to help keep Kern’s aviation history alive with the ‘Wings ...
Northwestern University researchers have created a potentially revolutionary hybrid anti-frost surface that prevents frost from accumulating on airplane wings and other surfaces like power lines for ...
This article delves deeper into the aircraft fuel system, its components, and functionalities. In most large aircraft, the fuel is stored in the wings, although some aircraft also have tanks in the ...
Ahmed K. Othman, Girguis Sedky, Hannah Wiswell and Aimy Wissa (left to right) equipped the wings of an RC plane with covert-inspired flaps, and flew it at Princeton's Forrestal Campus to prove ...
Taking inspiration from bird feathers, Princeton engineers have found that adding rows of flaps to a remote-controlled aircraft’s wings improves flight performance. Princeton researchers equipped the ...