Advances in laminar-flow airfoils and composites have sparked a renaissance in sailplane design ... the plane a 15-m wing span, one of the most popular sizes for racing gliders.

thanks to wing refinements and the use of a laminar airfoil, compared to the original xxtherm1 iteration. The design also had to balance the demands of aerodynamics with portability, given that one ...

The research focused on the concept of trailing-edge noise by using the characteristics of owl wings to inform airfoil design and significantly reduce the trailing-edge noise. Trailing-edge noise ...

Credit: Clinton Tanner, “The Effect of Wing Leading-Edge Contamination on the Stall Characteristics of Aircraft. ” Airfoil design has undergone ... sea planes, gliders, war birds, supersonic ...

Now, researchers at Lehigh University have formulated and solved for exactly the aerodynamic loads on an airfoil ... aero-acoustic tradeoff of porous wing designs. The work has been described ...

In particular, the wing flexes along its front edge while it moves up and down. Early attempts at human flight usually emulated birds, with flexible wings that flapped. These designs invariably ...

What is an airfoil? Contextually speaking, it’s the shape of an airplane’s wing. In the face of pressure ... As the film explains, the ideas of lift and drag are measured against the ...

The suits turn the human body into an “airfoil ... over the wing than under it. It is technology that has allowed people to sail to earth in parachutes and hang gliders for decades.