Flying car takes off in Slovakia
(c) Aeromobil Merging road cars with airplanes into a two-in-one purpose vehicle may seem like a SciFi endeavor, but how ...
Tag: aerodynamics
Rare and amazing photos of the Wright brothers and their historic flights [GALLERY]
Orville and Wilbur Wright are credited as the first men who built an aircraft capable of manned controlled flight. The ...
This ping-pong gun fires at supersonic Mach 1.2 speeds
(c) Mark French / Purdue University If there's something ever wrong with ping-pong guns is that they fire too slow. ...
Supersonic biplane design cancels sonic boom effect
The now retired Concorde turbojets were the fastest civilian airliners in the world, capable of carrying passengers from Paris to ...
Flapping-wing aircraft gets closer to reality after breakthrough
The dragonfly is capable of flying and hovering very precisely, even in conditions of instability like very strong winds. Scientists ...
The flying bionic bird – da Vinci’s dream come true
I'm still left in awe after stumbling across this marvelous feat of engineering, which perfectly applies nature's concepts to science ...
