Airfoil Aerodynamics What causes lift, that upward force that keeps flying machines aloft? ... Now we come back to our upside-down flying plane. As long as the plane's wings push air down, ...

Testing components of supersonic aircraft in flight can be problematic, and the refined wing design of Aerion’s developmental supersonic business jet (SSBJ) is a case in point. The 40-inch by 80 ...

Biplanes: If One Wing Is Good, Two Must Be Better Prevalence of biplanes over monoplanes was due almost entirely to practical considerations.

When the wing becomes coated with ice, the airfoil is changed. In other words, the pilot can wind up flying Wing B while trying to use the familiar engineering parameters of Wing A as it came from ...

A team that has created a supersonic jet design resembling a flying shuriken that rotates 90 degrees in flight has been awarded a US$100, 000 grant from NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC ...

Flying wings are popular options for fixed-wing FPV flying, but they have one rather annoying characteristic: yaw wag. The flying wing will wobble on the yaw axis while flying, and this side-to-sid… ...

The SR-71 with its blended wing body design. (Photo by Tech. Sgt. Michael Haggerty, US Air Force, 1988) Ask someone to picture an airplane and they’re likely to think of what is essentially a ...

The blended wing body, or "flying wing" concept has been around for a long time. We've seen it used in military design, but it has never made its way to the commercial side.