Research suggests that free-moving panels on aircraft wings can improve stability, reduce turbulence, and add fuel efficiency ...

Video posted to social media shows the metal segment flapping against the wing while it was still on ... original plane were transferred to another aircraft that was set to arrive in Houston ...

Blériot first ventured into aeronautical design between 1900 and 1902 when he built a series of model "ornithopters"—aircraft propelled by flapping wings—that were powered by carbon-dioxide ...

Especially the monitoring of the flapping movement of the rotor allows enhancing the performance of the tiltrotor aircraft and increases the operational ... installations (e.g. landing gear ...

The plastic flap ran the entire wing width and used tape as a hinge ... compared to when the aircraft was without the flaps." These flaps aren't the first time nature inspired a feature on ...