When an airplane flies, the wings are designed to provide enough lift to overcome the airplane’s weight, so the plane doesn’t ...

Who hasn't looked at an 800,000-pound passenger jet soaring through the sky and wondered how it could possibly stay up there? Ten-year-old Lucas took a break from munching his nachos at Schaumburg's ...

Thrust-vectoring makes impossible maneuvers possible. The huge, powerful jets can perform extremely tight turns that ...

On today’s episode of “For Science!” we explore the concepts of Thrust, Lift, and Drag by conducting the ring airplane experiment. Cut the paper into 1 inch strips. Using two strips, tape them ...

When the Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, made their historic first flight in 1903, they revolutionized how humans would traverse the world. Their biplane, "The Flyer," stayed in the air for only ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "eVTOL Aircraft Market by Lift Technology (Vectored Thrust, Multirotor, Lift Plus Cruise), MTOW (<250 KG, 250 - 500 KG, 500 - 1500 KG, >1500 KG), Application, Mode of ...

Scientist David E Alexander has researched ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Kansas. Speaking to Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke, he discusses flying creatures — and how their ...

Elon Musk, the real-world Tony Stark of our age, just tweeted a rather majestic photo (above) of his company’s latest achievement. The image shows the “first firing of Falcon 9-R advanced prototype ...