Humans have long drawn inspiration from bird wings to design mechanical ones—and now a team of mathematicians has taken this biomimicry to a new level. By 3-D-printing a variety of wing shapes, racing ...

A new type of airplane wing assembled like a jigsaw puzzle could make for lighter, more efficient aircraft. NASA and Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers tested the wing design in a NASA ...

Development of a laminar flow wing that aims to cut fuel burn and carbon dioxide emissions by up to 6% on the next generation of narrowbodies is progressing steadily. The wing is being billed as ...

A new type of composite wing that can change its shape according to flight conditions has been made from a lattice of small, lightweight components. This morphing ability could allow for more ...

A clever new wing design could make both air travel, plane maintenance, and plane production more efficient–and that could be good news for everyone. Researchers from NASA and MIT teamed up to rethink ...

(CN) - A new study on bird wing shape has found a pattern among birds of the same ancestry, called clades, and little correlation among flight styles. Previous wing shape studies have measured bone ...

Future aircraft wings will ripple with adaptive, shape-shifting, quiet moving parts rather than noisy hinged flaps. Over a century ago, the aviators who followed the Wright Brothers into the air ...

Steve Portugal is a leading comparative ecophysiologist at the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour, Royal Holloway, University of London. WHY ‘V’ MEANS VICTORY: Utilising ‘upwash’ force, ...

If you've had a window seat next to the wing of an airplane, you've probably watched as flaps on the wing engage and disengage as a plane takes off and lands. That's because in each phase of flight -- ...

TOULOUSE, France, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Airbus (AIR.PA), opens new tab said on Wednesday it would research an "extra performance wing" capable of changing shape during flight in an effort to secure ...

Over a century ago, the aviators who followed the Wright Brothers into the air suddenly turned away from building rickety wood-and-wire flying machines that physically warped the shape of their canvas ...