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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Aires Ultra is a micro DLG that uses 4 servo’s for full camber changing and different flight modes. It is extremely small (30 inch wing span), yet despite it’s small size the performance ...