Dynamic soaring is a bio‐inspired flight manoeuvre that enables unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to extend their operational range by utilising naturally occurring wind shear. By executing cyclical ...

The new study published today in Science Advances proves it isn’t just albatrosses that perform the aerial acrobatics needed for dynamic soaring on the windy open ocean. The research shows that sleek ...

If we are sending manned interstellar missions to other star systems, it becomes very hard to keep masses and power levels nearly reasonable. Interstellar travel missions really work out better after ...

A number of concepts exist for exploiting the solar wind as a means of propulsion: the MagSail, the e-sail, and the plasma magnet. All of these concepts work predominately as drag devices and thus are ...

Albatrosses leverage the energy of the wind to fly with essentially no mechanical cost to themselves, very rarely flapping their wings, and new work offers insight into how exactly they accomplish ...

Details of an unusual collaborative project between the US Air Force and NASA have been revealed, in which tests of a manned glider demonstrated the feasibility of dynamic soaring techniques that ...

Many small unmanned aircraft systems will try to emulate nature to help with increase fuel consumption or mobility. This aircraft is based on the Albatross which in habitats the southern oceans by ...

BANNING, Calif. For years boys and men have been fascinated by handheld gliders. Take them, send them into the wind, and see how long they'll stay in the air. Well, that's been taken up a few notches.

A new study shows how small seabirds have mastered the art of working smarter not harder when soaring at sea. The new study published today in Science Advances proves it isn't just albatrosses that ...

A new study shows that aerial acrobatics are not limited to albatrosses when it comes to dynamic soaring on the open ocean. The study discovered that elegant seabirds known as Manx shearwaters execute ...