Research published in the Journal of Experimental Biology has shown that flying fish are every bit as good at gliding as birds. The fish are able glide for more than 40 seconds, covering distances of ...

A swarm of spherical rovers, blown by the wind like tumbleweeds, could enable large-scale and low-cost exploration of the ...

Researchers have pinpointed the speed that helps the migratory birds maintain "peak efficiency" during their transcontinental ...

What happens when you put a U-Haul model into a hypersonic wind tunnel? In this wild experiment, engineers and researchers at the University of Texas San Antonio test a moving truck at Mach 7, pushing ...

Inside the Navy’s test basins, ship models are dragged, flooded with waves, and even self-propelled to reveal how their ...

Research and experiments on airdrops in France began with the first LABEX (LArgage Bombardier d’eau EXperimentation) ...

A second round of windtunnel testing is under way of a new composite wing which will equip a high-speed tiltrotor demonstrator being developed as part of the EU’s Clean Sky 2 programme. The T-Wing ...

NASA today successfully launched two hypersonic experiments as secondary payloads atop a NASA-built Terrier-Orion two-stage research sounding rocket from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Va., at 9:52 a ...

China has reportedly started operations on its first compounded wind tunnel dedicated to low-altitude aircraft testing in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. Developed by Guangdong Aerospace Research ...