Airplane designers have long admired how birds reshape their wings for soaring, diving, and maneuvering. Now, a prototype aircraft wing has demonstrated in its first flight tests that its morphing ...

A whole new concept of aeroplane wing design has been developed by a team from MIT and NASA, which can morph during flight and is covered in a ‘skin’ that somewhat resembles fish scales. The ...

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Bendable, morphing wings covered with overlapping pieces resembling scales or feathers could be used to build more agile, fuel-efficient aircraft, a new study finds. Nowadays, conventional aircraft ...

A new project at MIT for a wing that is able to change shape during flight is a bit of a throwback to the aircraft that the Wright Brothers first flew over a hundred years ago. The Wright Brothers ...

Researchers in the US have taken inspiration from nature to create a robotic wing that can recover from mid-air collisions. By examining the wings of birds and bats, the researchers, from Stanford ...

Drones can look pretty darn graceful up in the sky, but that effect is often ruined when you see the clumsy ways that they return to Earth. Fortunately, this could be about to change, courtesy of work ...

Man has been trying to find ways and means to conquer the universe. By putting challenges to the limits of his thinking, he has brought about a revolution in every field. A century ago the Wright ...

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