In one of the most famous "Twilight Zone" stories, an airline passenger looks out the window of a commercial plane and is horrified to see a monstrous gremlin on the wing. If you were to do the ...

Alaska has retired its last Boeing 737 without winglets, a rather rare breed. The Seattle-based airline is in the process of ...

AeroShark adds some 150 kg (330 lb.) to the 777. LHT estimates it provides 1% in fuel savings on a 10-hr. flight. The return on investment comes after 2-3 years, depending on aircraft utilization, ...

Significantly less well-known than its counterpart the Bermuda Triangle, the Devil's Sea has a similarly fearsome reputation.

Is there an aircraft large enough to affect the A380 in its wake ... Lift force is a strong function of wing area, speed, and angle of attack. Wingtip vortices are generated as the incoming air below ...

Yet hovering an aeroplane is fantastically harder than getting a rocket ... consisting primarily of the helical tip vortices created by the blades of the rotors, into a turbulent cascade of air moving ...

From Airbus’ fello’fly technique which takes inspiration from migrating geese to MicroTau’s ‘shark skin’ addition to planes – ...

No-slip boundary conditions were implemented at all solid walls and roughness elements, using an half-way or mid-plane bounce back scheme as illustrated ... and formation of eddies or vortices in the ...