To design and build MAVs with performance comparable to natural flyers, it is essential that natural flyers' combined flexible structural dynamics and aerodynamics are adequately understood. The ...

Humanity has long been obsessed with heavier-than-air flight, and to this day it remains a topic that is shrouded in a bit of ...

Wings? As I described in an earlier article ... fitting a smooth undertray — more on this in a later article. Aerodynamic ...

The phenomenon of vortex breakdown sets a limit on the achievable flight envelope of many swept-wing aircraft, due to a combination of lift-loss and the appearance of non-linearities and ...

Traditional wings, on the other hand, have less drag when maneuvering but more drag at high speeds, and they are heavier. Also affecting lift is the wing's airfoil shape—the shape of the wing as ...

The A1 wind tunnel is used for aerodynamics of high lift devices, aerodynamics of wind turbine blades, flight mechanics, gust interaction and aeroelasticity studies of wings, high aspect ratio wings ...

Any wing that generates lift also generates some drag ... Boeing notes that aerodynamic and structural questions remain, as truss-braced wings haven’t been thoroughly explored at this scale.

Rear wings on high performance vehicles are designed to counter lift. Without aerodynamic aids, most vehicles become less stable and have reduced grip as velocities increase (worst case ...