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When landing, bees adjust their flight speed and altitude by measuring the optic flow generated by the ground. Credit: Xia Di Bee Navigation...

Image: Paper for airplanes: This paper (top), made from layers of tiny clay discs and a polymer (seen under the microscope at bottom), migh...

Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk From Popular Mechanics: The aughts capped 100 years of powered flight, pushing the technologies introduced...

From Popular Science: No stranger to rough landings, NASA just engineered a crash of its own design to test a new crash countermeasure for h...

Image credit: SSgt Danny Washburn, U.S. Air Force Academy, Department of Aeronautics From Live Science: This is the view looking into the te...

Photo: Corbis From The Economist: BOTH Boeing and Airbus have trumpeted the efficiency of their newest aircraft, the 787 and A350 respectiv...

From New Scientist: ON A bright day in 1912, an Austrian tailor named Franz Reichelt jumped off the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. This was ...

From Autopia: Flight test programs at Edwards Air Force Base and NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center usually are off-limits to outsiders, b...

From the Danger Room: The Emdrive is an electromagnetic drive that would generate thrust from a closed system — “impossible” say some expert...

From Autopia: Few aircraft are as storied as the experimental series known as the X-Planes. These flying laboratories date to the mid-1940s ...

Image: Flying wing: The Boeing X-48B, an unmanned prototype with a 6.4-meter wingspan, has a blended-wing design that could one day replace...

Smoke visualization in Oxford University's wind tunnel showing the airflow over a flying locust's wings. (Credit: Animal Flight Grou...

From Autopia: Unmanned aerial aircraft see a lot of action on the battle front, but not all the battles are in Iraq or Afghanistan. Some fir...

Smile for Airplane Safety!: Curtiss P-40 Warhawk USAF Museum From Popular Science: In a recent study, molars beat materials science. Airpl...

Shape-shifter: The Z-wing configuration allows the aircraft to absorb solar power when in sunlight From The Daily Mail: It might look like ...

Image : Still grounded (Image: Boeing) From New Scientist: IF YOU want to know why carbon-fibre planes such as the Boeing 787 are still on t...

The X-51A WaveRider hypersonic flight test vehicle was uploaded to an Air Force Flight Test Center B-52 for fit testing at Edwards Air Force...

Photo : Ion power: NASA’s new ion-propulsion system is undergoing testing at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. Credit: NASA Fro...

From Space.com: New laser propulsion experiments are throwing light on how to build future hypersonic aircraft and beam spacecraft into Eart...

A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor aircraft participating in Northern Edge 2009 executes a supersonic flyby over the flight deck of the aircraft c...