The Supermarine Spitfire wasn’t just a fighter plane—it was a technological masterpiece that helped turn the tide of World ...

According to the Cornell Lab or Ornithology, there are four general wing shapes that allow birds to do specific things, such as gliding, soaring, hovering or flapping in the most effective ways. The ...

The finished Spitfire was a gorgeous aircraft. Catching the eye is the elliptical wing design—designed both to avoid creating drag, but also to be thick enough to house the retractable landing ...

Still, the success of one design with a conspicuous characteristic could not help influencing others. The purported virtue of the elliptical wing was that, theoretically at least, it would ...

For example, the Spitfire wing with its elliptical shape was recognized as an efficient design. But it was notoriously difficult and expensive to manufacture. Because laser sintering removes ...

The concept has been around since the 1940s but has attracted renewed attention because of its efficient elliptical ... flying-wing stealth bombers - an even more radical bat-wing design - though ...

elliptical, high speed and hovering. Soaring wings are long, like gliders, and there are two types of soaring wings. The passive soaring wing design included buzzards, hawks, eagles and storks and ...