Have you ever noticed varying cruise speeds during flight? Taking a quick look at the in-flight screen (on most long-haul ...

A talented and experienced experimental aircraft builder, he’s currently working on Scrappy, a small bush plane built to be a short take-off and landing drag racer. Scrappy started life as a ...

Designed in the early 1950s, the Payen Pa-49 Katy had a delta wing, jet engine, fixed gear, wooden structure, and less thrust ...

It's a classic aerodynamic problem: most wing shapes that perform well at high speeds by minimizing "drag" don't have ... than 38,000 lbs of thrust, accelerating the plane from 0 to 225 mph ...

One of these is the Magnus effect plane ... and drag. After iterations of the build-crash-rebuild cycle, he ended up with larger motors and rudder, shorter “wings”, and a higher thrust ...

Aeroplanes rely on four different scientific forces to fly - thrust, drag, weight and lift - all of which act against each other. When they are all balanced, a plane will fly in a nice ...

Six aircraft have been modified for a six-month evaluation before the microvanes, small 3D-printed devices similar to thin blades, are installed across ...