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Flying squirrel-inspired drone with foldable wings demonstrates high maneuverability
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Flying squirrel-inspired drone with foldable wings demonstrates high maneuverability

Credit: Dohyeon Lee, Jun-Gill Kang, and Soohee Han. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, have already proved to be valuable tools...

American Airlines planes bump wings at Washington airport | Aviation News
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American Airlines planes bump wings at Washington airport | Aviation News

An American Airlines plane carrying at least three members of the United States Congress has been struck on the taxiway by the wingtip...

Engineers develop batlike wings that boost hovering efficiency and flight performance
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Engineers develop batlike wings that boost hovering efficiency and flight performance

Karen Mulleners with her lab’s flexible membrane wing. Credit: Alain Herzog In 1934, French entomologist Antoine Magnan wrote that bumblebees “should not be...

Hummingbird-inspired wings detect wind direction with 99% accuracy
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Hummingbird-inspired wings detect wind direction with 99% accuracy

Biomimetic flapping-wing aerial robots in hover can accurately detect wind direction using wing strain sensing. Credit: Institute of Science Tokyo Bio-inspired wind sensing...

Engineers build raptor-inspired feathered drone with morphable wings and twisting tail that can initiate banking
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Engineers build raptor-inspired feathered drone with morphable wings and twisting tail that can initiate banking

High-speed sharp turning maneuvers enabled by tail twist with and without coordination of wing shape morphing. Credit: Hoang-Vu Phan A pair of engineers...