A new sound-suppression study provides fresh insight for airfoil design and noise control for micro-aircraft and fluid machinery. The research focused on the concept of trailing-edge noise by ...

The Colditz Glider Airfoil Aerodynamics What causes lift, that upward force that keeps flying machines aloft? Perhaps in a textbook or in a book written for a general audience you've seen an ...

Researchers used the characteristics of owl wings to inform airfoil design and significantly reduce trailing-edge noise. The team used noise calculation and analysis software to conduct a series ...

Adventurers saw pictures of the Rogallo wing and started putting together hang gliders despite admonitions, such as one in a 1961 issue of Popular Mechanics that warned, "Don't try to design or ...

They rely on the physics of fluid flow over an airfoil--getting the plane moving quickly enough generates a pressure differential between the top and bottom of the wing, creating lift.

where scientists reran tests conducted by the Wright brothers on two of their original metal "airfoils" -- wing-shape prototypes fashioned by Orville and Wilbur to determine the best design to get ...

Myers is one of the laid-off employees of Turbine Airfoil Designs in Harrisburg. Their situation might provide the perfect example of how broken the U.S. health care system is.

Student members of the University of Iceland’s Formula Student Team, Team Spark, worked with sponsor company Össur to develop a better airfoil/wing that is one seamless piece requiring only one mold ...

Michigan-based FlexSys has developed a way to optimize the aerodynamics of wing design with FlexFoil, a seamless variable geometry airfoil system that could deliver fuel savings of up to 12 percent.